Kadyrov's presence at Sulim Yamadaev's commemoration means complete reconciliation of conflicting parties, observers believe

Moscow Grows Weary Over Kadyrov’s Excessive Independence

On July 30, the primary news outlet of the Chechen militants, Kavkaz Center, citing its own sources, reported Moscow was preparing a drastic shift in its policies in the North Caucasus. According to the website, the main points of Moscow’s new plan for the North Caucasus includes the removal of Ramzan Kadyrov from power in Chechnya, sending him into a "dignified exile” to Moscow as a deputy Russian interior minister and the physical elimination of Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov, the "emir” of the Caucasus Emirate. In such an event these moves could result in reconciliation in Chechnya, given that Kadyrov’s successor, possibly Beslan Gantamirov, would have an explicit permission from Moscow to form "a government of national unity” in Chechnya that would bring the moderate members of the insurgency into the ruling bodies of the ...

"Thank you for giving me the possibility to share my story"

"The boy took a piece of bread out of his pocket, a small piece of brown bread, held it out to the soldier and said: "Please, don’t shoot me and I’ll give you the bread…”
 

Forcing someone to witness the torture and/or killing of another person can be torture in itself. Indeed, the practice is as widely used as it is gruesome.

A refugee from Chechnya, now living in Georgia, recounts his harrowing story in the book My name is…, published by the Georgian Center for Psychosocial and Medical Rehabilitation of torture Victims (GRCT), a member of the IRCT.

 "I was born in Kazakhstan. My parents had been deported from their native Chechnya. I remember returning to Chechnya only vaguely. I see, as if in a dream, my two sisters, my father and our low-ceilinged house with its slanting roof. I also see two rooms ...

Statement by the ChRI Cabinet of Ministers

August 9th, 2010

For the last 16 years there has been a continuous  record of violence and atrocities committed on the territory of the occupied Chechen state. The world has chosen to play the part of a dispassionate observer and has abandoned our nation to be torn apart by the Russian Empire. Political expediency and economic considerations have prevailed over the pangs of conscience of eminent world politicians and leaders of international institutions. Instead of objective intervention which they are committed to and which they are engaged in in other parts of the world, they limit themselves to discussions of the Chechen issue. It is not our job at the moment to lecture anyone,  but we consider it our right, as victims of state terrorism, to be heard and to demand justice.

We have stated time and time again that our only wish is to have ...