The long road to justice
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1795401,00.html
Hundreds of civilians have been murdered during Russia's dirty war in
Chechnya. Faced with a state deaf to protest against atrocities, the
only recourse for victims' relatives is now the European Court of Human
Rights. James Meek on their desperate quest to see the killers brought
to book
Monday June 12, 2006
The Guardian
In the middle of the afternoon of February 5 2000, when outside there
were the sounds of boots crunching on snow, screams and scattered
bursts of gunfire from different directions, Malika Labazanova crouched
on the floor of her house at No 20, Third Tsimlyansky Lane, Grozny. A
young man in camouflage fatigues held the muzzle of an automatic rifle
against her head. Both were citizens of the same country, Russia, but
he represented the government, and she did not.
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