et and the hospital of Shali were bombed, killing fifty people and injuring one-hundred eighty six. Murdering civilians is not only the result of artillery attacks and air-strikes, military missions also target the innocent. Crime committed by federal soldiers on January 17, 1995, on the road between Assinovskaya and Nesterovskoye received international publicity. A convoy of ten or eleven cars carrying refugees from Grozny was fired upon, killing eleven people and wounding three. The cars were crushed by a tank of the federal forces. The list of violations of human rights includes the unlawful detention of civilians by Russian troops without due cause, and execution without judicial procedures. Torture and beating of prisoners has been reported repeatedly and was confirmed by human rights organizations operating in Chechnya.Although, the examples mentioned refer to the earlier conflict in the 1990’s, it is not likely that the human rights situation is any better in the recent war. The most recent attacks on Chechen centers caused an outcry of humanitarian organizations. Amnesty International expressed its concern about the humanitarian situation to the United Nations in an open letter, stating: “For example, it was alleged that during the air raids on 27 September, the Russian military bombed a school and housing estates in the town of Staraya Sunzha, a suburb in the north of Grozny: 21 civilians were reportedly killed and 44 wounded. Members of the Russian Human Rights Center “Memorial” who interviewed internally displaced people in Ingushetia in October, reported that during this attack, carried out by four Russian warplanes. A residential quarter was bombed and two houses were completely demolished. At least six people were killed in a garage basement: a family, which included a pregnant woman and two children, a girl of three and a boy of one year and a half.” The conflict seems to continue to result ...
