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April 08, 2005 14:30

• Memorial registers 3101 deaths in five years

  Which may be just one-third of or fewer than the actual number of civilians killed in Chechnya since mid-2000.

April 08, 2005 14:16

• Mines kill 100 in Azerbaijan

  People continue to die in spite of the ceasefire.

April 07, 2005 13:59

• Creepy pattern

  Five Chechens are abducted within a few days with almost the same abduction pattern everywhere.

April 07, 2005 13:50

• Village 'cleaned-up' since mid-March

  A passport check operation leads to at least two people killed.

April 07, 2005 13:47

• Meskhetians vote for homeland

  Most Meskhetian Turks polled in two districts in Azerbaijan are willing to return to Georgia.

April 06, 2005 13:31

• Women's rights violated in Georgia

  Several service women are discharged from the Georgian army while on maternity leave.

April 06, 2005 12:48

• War on innocents

  A five-year-old child is killed in a special operation in Dagestan.

April 06, 2005 12:12

• Just camouflage

  One man is killed and two are abducted in Chechnya.

April 05, 2005 12:32

• Maskhadov may have been trapped 'internationally'

  There is some evidence Germany and Switzerland may have been involved in trapping the Ichkeria president Aslan Maskhadov.

April 05, 2005 12:28

• Ridiculous ban

  Azerbaijan's government persists in preventing a rights advocate from going abroad, although it cannot prevent his report from being delivered to the UN Commission on Human Rights.

April 05, 2005 12:17

• Chechnya struck with unemployment

  The republic's economy is reconstructed too slowly, as 80% of the population remains jobless.

April 04, 2005 12:06

• More arbitrary detentions

  Law enforcers continue to detain local residents adding to thousands of abductions that plague Chechnya.

April 04, 2005 11:52

• Occasional casualties

  An officer in Chechnya kills a soldier 'through carelessness.'

April 01, 2005 15:02

• Commissioner reports human rights violations in N Caucasus

  The report of Russia's Commissioner on Human Rights for 2004 is published.

March 30, 2005 23:56

• Abkhaz leader gets clear

  President Sergey Bagapsh says Abkhazia's political status 'is not subject of discussion.'

March 30, 2005 23:10

• Bridge blown up in Dagestan

  A blast destroys much of a bridge in what appears to be targeting a local official.

March 29, 2005 23:59

• Media to sue Baku Underground

  The reason for the suit is a ban on selling opposition newspapers.

March 29, 2005 23:58

• Meskhetian Turks issue 'moved forward'

  A Georgian government commission on the repatriation of Meskhetian Turks to Georgia begins work.

March 29, 2005 23:00

• Local man abducted, found dead

  Another abducted person's body bears marks of severe torture and abuse.

March 28, 2005 23:59

• Policeman wounded in 'revenge attack'

  A regiment under <a href="http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/analyticstext/enganalytics/id/783160.html" target="_blank">Ramzan Kadyrov</a>'s command is attacked in what is thought to be "revenge."