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| Photo Credit: Yuri Tutov/Associated Press |
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Security Sweep:
Russian soldiers point their guns at an unidentified woman and child during a zachistka or clean-up operation, while other soldiers search for suspected rebels in the apartment building. Zachistki, designed to root out armed rebels, occur frequently in the city and all over Chechnya and have sparked much criticism of Russia's conduct in Chechnya from the international community for their frequent use of indiscriminate violence. According to the Russian human rights group Memorial, some 2,000 Chechens have disappeared during clean-up operations, at least 12,000 have been killed and thousands more have been tortured, robbed or raped.
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