Lives intersect in brutal vortex of Chechnya

Books , Criticism Mar 08, 2014 No Comments

As anyone who has visited Chechnya will tell you, it is not an easy place to forget. On the other hand, it is also one that seems intent on forgetting.

Not for Grozny the memorials of cities such as Volgograd, née Stalingrad, with its pockmarked riverside flour mill that was left standing after World War II as a reminder of the definitive battle that took place there.

Treating psychic wounds in Chechnya has been confused with eradicating any sign of physical ones. In a bilingual volume commissioned by Chechnya’s government, Moscow’s man in the republic, President Ramzan Kadyrov, writes gushingly of the recent political and economic progress and about how the hope of the people has been “reborn”. The only reference to the past two decades of conflict—the wars of 1994-96 and 1999-2000, as well the insurgency that has since engulfed the republic’s neighbours—is when Kadyrov writes of the need to “liquidate the consequences of the war quickly”.
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It’s a chilling choice of words when you remember what his father and predecessor, Akhmad, said what he would have done to avoid the second war, which he blamed on the expansionist ambitions of certain foreign jihadists within Chechnya’s government. “Three to five [forced disappearances] and everyone would have got the message.”

Read the full review in The Weekend Australian.

Matthew Clayfield

Matthew Clayfield is a journalist, critic and screenwriter.

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