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Elistanzhi cluster bomb attack

1999 Russian massacre in Chechnya

Summary

1999 Russian massacre in Chechnya

Field	Value
title	Elistanzhi bombing
location	Elistanzhi, Chechnya
target	Demilitarized village
date	October 7, 1999
type	Cluster bombing
fatalities	At least 34
injuries	At least 20
perps	Russian Air Force
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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.

References

[http://www.memo.ru/eng/hr/ch991018.htm The report on the Observer mission to the zone of the armed conflict] {{Webarchive. link. (2016-03-03 , [[Memorial (society)). Memorial]], October 18, 1999

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