In November 1999, Amnesty International representatives together with members of the Moscow-based human rights organization, Memorial, visited the border between Chechnya and the Republic of Ingushetia and Stavropolsky Kray Region of the Russian Federation, bordering on Chechnya, to collect first-hand testimony from people affected by the conflict in the Chechen Republic and to assess the humanitarian situation of the hundreds of thousands internally displaced people living in camps along the border. In this report, Amnesty International describes selected recent incidents, on which the organization was able to collect a number of eyewitness accounts which corresponded to one another. Amnesty International describes numerous violations of Russia with international law documents, such as the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers.
In November 1999, Amnesty International representatives together with members of the Moscow-based human rights organization, Memorial, visited the border between Chechnya and the Republic of Ingushetia and Stavropolsky Kray Region of the Russian Federation, bordering on Chechnya, to collect first-hand testimony from people affected by the conflict in the Chechen Republic and to assess the humanitarian situation of the hundreds of thousands internally displaced people living in camps along the border. In this report, Amnesty International describes selected recent incidents, on which the organization was able to collect a number of eyewitness accounts which corresponded to one another. Amnesty International describes numerous violations of Russia with international law documents, such as the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers.
