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Chechens…

So Chechenia is in the news… The U.S. news that is. Back in the late ’90’s they suffered a brutal repression by the Russians and were in the news there for quite a while.

Here is a very small insight of what some of them went through: Chechen refugees in the Pankisi valley of neighbouring Georgia…

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GEORGIA. Pankisi Valley (Pankisi Valley). 24/02/2000: Chechen refugees on the main road in the valley. GEORGIA. Duisi (Pankisi Valley). 23/02/2000: Market stall. GEORGIA. Duisi (Pankisi Valley). 23/02/2000: Small shop opened by Chechen refugee. GEORGIA. Duisi (Pankisi Valley). 2/03/2000: Market. GEORGIA. Jokolo (Pankisi Valley). 2/03/2000: Women waiting for a food distribution by a Wahhabite organisation. GEORGIA. Duisi. 2/03/2000: Food distribution by UNHCR. GEORGIA. Birkiani. 2/03/2000: Chechen refugee having walked through the snow during 5 days to cross the border, sheltered in former school. GEORGIA. Matani. 3/03/2000: Georgian check-point at the entrance of the Pankisi valley.
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