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Anniversary of Aldy Massacre passes in fear and silence

10 February 2017 by Kazbek Chanturiya

A still from doc­u­men­tary ’Aldy: No statute of lim­i­ta­tions’ showing Russian jour­nal­ist Natalya Estemiro­va before her murder in 2009 (YouTube)

On 5 February 2000, Russian soldiers summarily executed dozens of civilians in the Chechen village of Aldy. Survivors of the massacre have no hope of finding justice, with the author­i­ties doing every­thing in their power to whitewash this and other tragedies.

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