Russia’s atrocities in Ukraine, rehearsed in Chechnya
Al JazeeraMoscow’s invasion has echoes of the tactics it employed in conflicts in the North Caucasus, experts and survivors say. “In this war, many observers see echoes of previous atrocities under Putin,” Ivar Dale, a senior policy adviser with the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, a rights watchdog, told Al Jazeera. “Possibly, the most important thing is that the Russian army and law enforcement really got used to warring and killing,” Nikolay Mitrokhin, a historian with Germany’s Bremen University, told Al Jazeera. “Russian control comes together with a lot of militant propaganda,” a Russian human rights advocate who documented the war crimes in Chechnya told Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity. “Russia’s attack on Ukraine finally puts these horrors into context, and when the war is finally over, historians will surely see patterns stretching across all of Putin’s wars, as well as other human rights disasters under his leadership,” Norwegian Helsinki Committee’s Dale said.
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