![]() ![]() Several naked corpses are then dragged from the truck and placed in a heap next to the railway tracks. At the end of the footage, some of the captives are ordered to unload their comrades who have already died during the transport. While moving from one crowded prison truck to another, the prisoners are physically abused by spetsnaz (special forces) of the Russian Ministry of Justice. There were two women who, unlike the men, do not show signs of beating but are separated and led away after exiting the truck. In it, a grainy black-and-white footage shows a large group of naked and half-naked Chechen prisoners who had accepted the Russian offer of amnesty, most of them injured the captives shown are mostly men and adolescent boys, many of them having visible untreated wounds and some with missing limbs. But in the official reports of federal 'victories' such details of the 'war against terror' were never mentioned." Amateur video footage Īn amateur video dated 21 March 2000, was uncovered and released in 2004 by Anna Politkovskaya, an investigative journalist for Novaya Gazeta. Eyewitnesses have told of corpses with severed ears and noses, gouged-out eyes and severed limbs. Prague Watchdog commented that "many of the bodies were unidentified, because they had been mutilated beyond recognition. In 2008, Prague Watchdog cited a testimony of the survivor "Aslan" speaking of prisoners being "beaten to death, buried alive in the ground, crushed by tanks and armored vehicles". He also claimed to have witnessed injured Chechens being "crushed by tank caterpillars, smashed to death by rifle butts and even digging tools" and how "basements whereto we took our wounded with cut-off limbs were targeted by grenades or set ablaze", a mass killing of prisoners who had surrendered in response to the Russian President's Vladimir Putin's public offer of amnesty on 20 March as well as seeing the "disappeared" prisoners being forced to dig their own graves. Speaking to a leading Russian human rights group Memorial in 2003, Rustam Azizov, a surviving Chechen captive whose arm had to be later amputated due to lack of medical treatment, described suffering extreme abuse while incarcerated, which included severe beatings and torture after being taken to a " filtration camp" at Urus Martan. It was not known who had mutilated the bodies, or why". The United States Army Infantry School wrote that "the Ministry of Emergency Situations workers, who were tasked with removing civilian corpses and taking them to the nearby village of Goyskoye for identification (.) collected bodies lying by the river, some of which had ears, noses, or fingers sliced off. Three others had their ears cut off-a Russian soldier at the scene joked that they lost their ears 'because they'd heard too much.'" At least one had his hands bound with heavy cable and his head was split open with a spade another had his tongue cut out. 2000 massacre Īccording to Owen Matthews, a Newsweek correspondent who visited the ruins of Komsomolskoye soon after the end of the conflict, saw the remains of at least 11 Chechen fighters, saying "it is clear that many did not die in battle. A prominent feature in the incident was the fate of a group of about 72 Chechen combatants who had surrendered on 20 March on a Russian public promise of amnesty, but had almost all either died or " disappeared" shortly after they were detained. The Komsomolskoye massacre occurred following the Battle of Komsomolskoye (Chechen: Saadi-Kotar) during the Second Chechen War in March 2000. The sensitive videos themselves are only shown on request and after careful examination.2000 massacre of Chechen civilians by Russian soldiers in the Second Chechen War The documents can be viewed by researchers, lawyers, journalists and non-governmental organizations, as well as by the Chechen and Russian population, who have only limited access to independent information on the Chechen wars. The archive contributes to the fight against impunity as a publicly accessible database by serving as a basis for the legal and historical processing of war crimes. As for almost two decades following that, no public or legal account has been given of these events. ![]() It aims to preserve the collective memories and the truth about the events of the wars in Chechnya between 19. In addition to the documentation of human rights violations, war crimes and testimony, the Chechen Archive contains unique reports on historical, social and political events. Since May 2016 an archive with data from the two Chechen wars has been available online at With the support of PeaceWomen Across the Globe, Reporters Without Borders and Echo of War, the STP systematically worked through 1,270 video sequences.
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