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Forgotten Land

Chechnya remains mired in misery

By Fred Weir

Zara Bashayeva is a statistic no one in Moscow or Washington wants to hear about. In early January, Bashayeva gathered up her three children and left the family home in Serzhen Yurt, eastern Chechnya, for the relative safety of a muddy and squalid refugee camp just inside the neighboring republic of Ingushetia. Why did she flee a war the Kremlin has… return to article

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