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Chechen genocide | |
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Part of the Chechen–Russian conflict | |
![]() A Russian soldier stands on a mass grave of Chechens in Komsomolskoye, who were killed in the Second Chechen War, 2000 | |
Location | North Caucasus |
Date | 1785 – 2017 |
Target | Chechens |
Attack type | Genocide, population transfer, ethnic cleansing, massacre, starvation |
Deaths | |
Perpetrators | Russian Empire and its successor states the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation |
Motive | Russian imperialism, Russian nationalism, Russification, Anti-Chechen sentiment, Islamophobia, Racism |
The Chechen genocide[9] refers to the mass casualties carried out on the Chechen people during the various stages of the Russia–Chechnya conflict since the second half of the 18th to early 21st centuries.[10][11] The term has no legal effect,[12] although the European Parliament has recognized the 1944 forced deportation of Chechens, which killed an estimated 1/3-1/2 of the total Chechen population, as an act of genocide.[13] The Ukrainian Rada has also condemned Russia's genocide of the Chechen people.
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