| | Spain: Don't Ignore Russian Abuses in Chechnya (Human Rights Watch, 2-4-2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | The Russian government insists that Chechnya is returning to normal, and has refused to establish a national commission to investigate charges of serious abuses by Russian troops against Chechen civilians. |
 | | Tracking the conduct of Russian forces in six military sweep operations between August and December 2001 alone, the Human Rights Watch briefing paper documents nine forced disappearances and five cases of the indiscriminate use of force. |
 | | The Russian authorities pressure them to return to Chechnya, but the majority remains in Ingushetia, in conditions of squalor, insecurity, and uncertainty. |
| www.hrw.org /press/2002/04/spain040202.htm (864 words) |