Elistanzhi cluster bomb attack
1999 Russian massacre in Chechnya
42°58′16″N 46°01′01″E / 42.971°N 46.017°E / 42.971; 46.017Attack type
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Second Chechen War
Russian offensive (1999–2000)
- Russian air bombardment
- Elistanzhi cluster bombing
- Grozny missile attack
- Shami-Yurt bombing
- Goity incident
- Grozny
- Staropromyslovsky massacre
- Katyr-Yurt bombing
- Novye Aldi massacre
- Height 776
- Komsomolskoye
- OMON fratricide incident
- 1st Zhani-Vedeno
Guerrilla phase (2000–2009)
- Galashki
- 1st suicide bombings
- 2nd suicide bombings
- Alkhan-Kala
- Vedeno
- 1st Grozny crash
- Tsotsin-Yurt
- Shelkovskaya crash
- 2nd Grozny
- Khankala crash
- Grozny truck bomb
- Znamenskoye suicide bombing
- Nazran
- 1st Avtury
- 4th Grozny
- Dagestan sieges
- Borozdinovskaya
- Makhachkala bombing
- Nalchik
- Gimry
- 2nd Avtury
- Vladikavkaz crash
- Border incident
- Shatoy crash
- 2nd Zhani-Vedeno
Elistanzhi cluster bomb attack occurred on October 7, 1999, in Chechnya, when two Russian Sukhoi Su-24 fighter bombers dropped several cluster bombs on the apparently undefended mountain village of Elistanzhi.
The bombing killed at least 34 (48 according to some reports) and injured some 20 to over 100 people in the small village, mostly women and children; at least nine children were reportedly killed when one bomb hit the local school. Witnesses and victims stated that there were no military objectives in the village prior to or at the time of the attack. Representatives of the Russian human rights group Memorial visited Elistanzhi shortly after the bombing and found no evidence of any Chechen separatist military presence in the village.[1]
References
- ^ The report on the Observer mission to the zone of the armed conflict Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, Memorial, October 18, 1999
External links
- VOA Report, Voice of America, 10/9/1999
- CARPET BOMBARDMENT OF THE ELISTANJI VILLAGE, OCTOBER 7, 1999, Memorial, 26.10.1999
- The attack on the village of Elistanzhi (7 October), Amnesty International, 1 December 1999
- Russian Warcrimes in Chechnya, 1, YouTube
