ATROCITIES:

Chechen refugees in Ingushetia say drunken, marauding Russian soldiers murdered scores of civilians in Aldi…. A Russian weekly reported that the bombardment of Kady-Yurt killed 167 civilians…. A German television station broadcast videotape taken by a Russian cameraman showing Russian soldiers filling a mass grave. Many of the corpses were bound at the ankles. Kremlin spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky called the tape “a complete fake”…. Sergei Kovalev, a human rights activist and member of the Duma, said the civilian casualties in Chechnya are “close to genocide.”