BY MATTHEW LUCAS The soldiers beating on the thick iron door yelled for Isa Sakaev to surrender. Two of his sisters, Khutmat and Lursa, barefoot and in the clothes they had slept in, stood outside, surrounded by Federal and pro-government…
Category: Low-intensity conflict
Saving Bashir
BY IVA SAVIC It was a Thursday, December 18th 2003, when 28 year-old Bashir Mutzolgov came back from a day trip to his native town of Karabulak in Ingushetia, one of Russia’s mountainous southern republics neighboring Chechnya. He visited his parents…