On 23rd of February 1944. 400 thousands Muslim Chechens and Ingush perished in large scale ethnic cleansing, genocide, and forceful deportation from their homelands in Caucuses to different states in Asia.

Summary:

• Three centuries of Russian invasions, war and genocides against Muslim Chechens and Ingush in the Caucuses lead to massive drop of their population from 1.5 million to 116 thousand people! Particularly between 1847 to 1867 (they literally killed 92% of the entire population in the span of 20 years!)

• Of these genocides, the most devastating one the Chechens and Ingush people faced was the one occurred in 1944, where 400 thousands Chechens and Ingush perished in large scale ethnic cleansing and forceful deportation operation by the orders of Joseph Stalin.

Detailed:

• The Chechen-Russian conflict is one of the longest and most protracted conflicts in modern history, spanning three centuries. Its origins date back to 1785, when the Chechens fought against Russian expansionism into the Caucasus. The Caucasus War was fought between 1817 and 1864. The Russian Empire succeeded in annexing the area and subjugating its people, but also killed or deported numerous non-Russian peoples and was responsible for the Circassian genocide. The Circassians, the Ubykh and the Abaza were subsequently resettled to the Ottoman Empire. However, other Caucasus people were affected as well. There were up to 1.5 million Chechens in the Caucasus in 1847, but as a result of this war and ensuing expulsions, their number dropped to 140,000 in 1861, and then further to 116,000 in 1867. In 1865, at least 39,000 Chechens were exiled to the Ottoman Empire by the Russian Empire.

• An eyewitness recalled the atrocities committed by the Soviet Russian forces in 23rd February 1944 (NKVD): "They combed the huts to make sure there was no one left behind... The soldier who came into the house did not want to bend down. He raked the hut with a burst from his submachine gun. Blood trickled out from under the bench where a child was hiding. The mother screamed and hurled herself at the soldier. He shot her too. There was not enough rolling stock. Those left behind were shot. The bodies were covered with earth and sand, carelessly. The shooting had also been careless, and people started wriggling out of the sand like worms. The NKVD men spent the whole night shooting them all over again."

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Chechens_and_Ingush

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