Eightytwo dead, burned corpses, civilians executed in the streets and courtyards, many with their hands tied. In Aldi a suburb of Grozny in 2000 a massacre committed by the Russian army, which seems to have happened similarly to Bucha.
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It’s February 5, 2000 and that Second Chechen War has been running for about six months. Wladimir Putin is just at the peak of power and the conflict in Central Asia is not attracting international media cameras, then with 9/11 the West will indeed bless the Russian offensive as part of the war on terror. Twentytwo years have passed, but the story of what happened Novye Aldia suburb of the Chechen capital of Grozny, eerily relates to the images that derive from it Bucha.
Here have over a hundred Russian soldiers Civilians killed house after house, raped at least six women, set fire to several houses and looted the assets of citizens. Some of the corpses could not be named: the soldiers set them on fire. The crimes were documented by Human Rights Watch and the death toll is eightytwo. The European Court of Human Rights recognized the facts in two different judgments between 2006 and 2007.
Here is the story of one of the survivors: “We felt that everyone with their passports should have been found in the yards or on the street, so we all went out expecting the soldiers to arrive at any moment. Then… we started hearing shots from all over the city… As the soldiers walked through Voronezhskaia Street, they killed everyone in their path.
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The description of the carnage in an apartment, Men with their hands tied and their bodies burned in the basement: “On the fifth … I entered my soninlaw’s house. I saw the bodies of my soninlaw and his friend Musa under the awning. My soninlaw’s hands were tied with wire, they had shot him in the head, they shot him straight in the face, in the eyes. A young man took photos. Musa had the same injuries, her head was crushed. There was a Russian woman… with them the basement… Soldiers killed her and burned her body in the basement. A foul smell came from the basement. First she was shot and then she was burned… Their heads were smashed: they had more gunshot wounds to the head. ” The victims mentioned by the witness are Khampash Yakhiaev, Musa Yakhiaev and Elena Kuznetsova.
In these hours one gets the impression that much of the horrors of war and the crimes committed in that war have yet to be told. What we can say for sure is that the long war in Chechnya as Anna Politkovskaya recounts in a book published in Rankings in Italy in recent weeks has been the training ground on which the Russian army has been in recent years has grown amid reprisals and cities . razed to the ground, and where the new Russian nationalist sentiment was being built. The Aldi massacre is also there to tell all skeptics and speakers (whether they are aware of it or not) about the Russian propaganda that has already happened. And not in a different historical epoch, but the day before yesterday and by the same occupying army that stood at the gates of Grozny yesterday and arrived at the gates of Kyiv today. And that’s another fact.