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1999 Russian massacre in Chechnya
Elistanzhi bombing
LocationElistanzhi, Chechnya
Coordinates42°58′16″N 46°01′01″E / 42.971°N 46.017°E / 42.971; 46.017
DateOctober 7, 1999
TargetDemilitarized village
Attack typeCluster bombing
DeathsAt least 34
InjuredAt least 20
PerpetratorsRussian Air Force
Second Chechen War
Russian offensive (1999–2000)

Guerrilla phase (2000–2009)

Attacks on civilians during the Chechen Wars
  • Samashki
  • Russian apartment bombings
  • Elistanzhi
  • Grozny
  • Shami-Yurt
  • Goity
  • Alkhan-Yurt
  • Staropromyslovski
  • Novye Aldi
  • Katyr-Yurt
  • Tsotsin-Yurt
  • Kaspiysk
  • Stavropol
  • Tula and Rostov
  • Moscow
  • Borozdinovskaya
  • Beslan
  • 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

    1. 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

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