The history of the Chechen war

Since 1722, Chechnya is suffering from continuous Russian campaigns. Chechen towns were completely erased and destroyed. Until the year 1864, the War stayed continuous for 142 years, where 75% of the Chechen population was eradicated and most of the towns were completely erased. This was the first liquidation.

In February 1944, Chechens were exiled to the cold Siberia and desert of Kazakhstan. Chechens were accused in cooperating with Germany. Again, more than 50% of the Chechens were liquidated in the exile. Chechnya was erased from the maps and no official mention to it was until 1957. This was the second liquidation.

Although Germany was targeting the oil fields of Grozny in Chechnya and Baku in Azerbaijan, but it never made it to these fields. Daniel Yergin in his book “The Prize” 1992, mentioned: ” In mid August [1942], Germany mountain troops planted the swastika at the summit of Mount Elbrus, the highest point in the Caucasus and in Europe…. By November 1942 the last German effort to break through the mountain passes toward Grozny and Baku had definitively been repulsed.”

The eight nations exiled were Chechens, Ingush, Karachai, Balkar, Kalmyk, Crimean Tatar, Volga Germans, Meskhetians. They were ordered to board the trains in order to be used as a hard labor in building the Siberian railroad. The ill and the elderly Chechens were separated from their families, where they were pushed out of the trains and were left to face the death alone, along the rail road.

In Siberia, each Chechen family was divided into many concentration camps, which were fenced and separated by miles from each other. These families were not allowed to communicate during the 13 years of the exile. In 1957, Khrushchev decided to return five nations, among them the Chechens to their homeland. Volga Germans and Crimean Tatars are still in the exile. Meanwhile, Meskhetians were totally eradicated, their homeland was annexed to Georgia in the Caucasus, and was erased from the official maps.

This exile and the punishment were worse than what Hitler did! The world media never gave the attention to Stalin’s liquidation of nations, relative to the Holocaust of Hitler which is always under spot light!

An important note here, one of the main reasons that Hitler was defeated is the lack of oil which left the German machinery and army to be frozen in Russia. If Hitler actually reached Grozny and Baku, he would never be defeated!

The third liquidation of the Chechens by Russians was in the War (1994-1996). Before the War, the Chechen population was 1.2 million, but after the War the population dropped to 250,000. Hundred thousand Chechens were killed and the rest were dislocated.

Today’s invasion by Russia to Chechnya is a continuous liquidation and total destruction, targeting at first the civilians. Thousands of Chechen women, children, and elderly were forced to stay on their feet at closed borders for several days till they were collapsed. Only the ones who pay to the Russians were allowed to pass the borders to Ingushita. The rest were forced to return to their homes under the bombing, where thousands of them were killed. The cold weather in the refugee tents is killing the children, elderly and the sick. The lack of antibiotics and medicine cause the death of the wounded. Surgeries are made without anastasia!

(Source: witness-pioneer.org)