Background Briefing

Submission to the European Court of Human Rights


A Summary of Human Rights Watch Research on Attacks on Fleeing Civilians and Civilian Convoys during the War in Chechnya, Russia between October 1999 to February 2000.1


April 16, 2003

Introduction

Relevant Legal Standards

Chervlyonnaya, October 5, 1999

Baku-Rostov Highway, October 29, 1999

The Attack

Bus with Fleeing Chechens

Two Trucks with Fleeing Chechens

The Red Cross Convoy

A Van with Thirteen Passengers

Field on the South Side of the Road

Other Vehicles, More Casualties

The Casualties

Other Attacks along the Baku-Rostov Highway

Petropavlovskaya - Tolstoi-Yurt road, October 29, 1999.

Grozny-Goity Road, December 2-3, 1999

Katyr-Yurt, February 4-6, 2000

Attacks on Fleeing Civilians


 



[1] This submission is based on unique eyewitness testimony collected by Human Rights Watchresearchers in Ingushetia, Russia, between November 1999 to May 2000.