'New Stage' of Fear for Chechen Women
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As Chechen guerrillas increasingly recruit female suicide bombers, Russian forces are sweeping through Chechnya abducting women from their homes as well as men, according to residents and human rights investigators.
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KABUL -- Clutching scarves nervously around their faces, the women whispered details of Taliban atrocities taking place in their native Helmand province: A translator's body found in a sack, carved into pieces. A police officer taken hostage, blinded and garroted with wire. A woman shot and hanged...
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A recent murder indicates a backlash by some against women as their rights and opportunities increase.
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MOSCOW -- The locked gates and barred windows that kept 45 women from escaping a fire early yesterday at a drug treatment center pointed to conditions now common in post-Soviet Russia's state-run institutions.
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BESLAN, Russia - A numb Russia observed a national day of mourning on Monday for the hundreds of victims of the terrorist school seizure, while in this grief-stricken southern region neighboring Chechnya families continued searching for the missing.    A prosecutor said the hostage-takers belonged to a cell formed by radical Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev, the Interfax news agency reported...
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The locked gates and barred windows that kept 45 women from escaping a fire early Saturday at a drug treatment center pointed to conditions now common in post-Soviet Russia's state-run institutions.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The room was carpeted and cozy, warm from the wood stove and filled with the chatter of children. But the tales their mothers and older sisters told recently, speaking hesitantly even in the safety of a guarded private shelter, were bone-chilling.
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Sept. 1 - A cultlike network of militantly Islamic Chechen women known as âBlack Widowsâ is playing a critical role in what increasingly looks like a coordinated wave of terrorist attacks on civilian targets
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Russian security forces were facing further criticism last night after it was revealed that the two female Chechen suicide bombers who destroyed two planes in August with the loss
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Alla Gadieyeva fears the dark. She cannot sleep most nights, she rarely leaves her apartment, and she cannot remember what she was told moments earlier.
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As a spate of suicide bombings around the world in recent years has shown, the face of terror is increasingly female.
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MOSCOW, Oct. 21 -- She survived three days as a hostage and the destruction of the school where she has passed nearly all of her 72-year life. Now Lydia Tsaliyeva is heading home, and her life may be in danger all over again. Only this time the threat comes from her neighbors.
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MOSCOW, Nov 30 (IPS) - Three human rights organisations have said that  abductions and torture are rampant in Chechnya despite the  relative calm.
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After the terror bombing of two airliners in Russia, the Kremlin tries to face up to a new Chechen tactic
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Despite the apparent death of Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, a new breed of insurgents could be harder to defeat
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A list of major terror attacks linked to Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev.
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Russia announces a new security structure for the North Caucasus to prevent Beslan-style terror attacks.