Reading List Selection

52nd Anniversary of the Chechen Genocide- http://www.amina.com/article/aniver_gen.html

The world knows little about the events of the 1944 genocide of the Chechen people. This article is a detailed second-hand account of the deportation and eventual slaughter of the Chechen people by the Russians in 1944. One year prior, during World War II, the Chechen people had staged an uprising, prompting the Russian government to end the problem once and for all by gathering and deporting the entire population of Chechnya. In February of that year all the people were instructed that they would be celebrating Red Army Day in the centers of their respective towns. Upon arriving, in the various squares they were read a decree handed down from the Russian government which stated the plans for the widespread deportation. From there thousands of Chechens were inhumanely crammed into train cars and shipped to designated deportation areas where the majority of them were slaughtered.