Massacre, mass murder, looting, arson, rape, war crime
Deaths
At least 300 civilians[1][2]
Perpetrators
Russia
Motive
Genocidal intent[a]
v
t
e
First Chechen War
Pre-war battles
1st Grozny
Destruction of the Chechen Air Force [ru; uk]
1994–1995
Dolinskoye
Khankala
2nd Grozny
Shali cluster bombing
Aksai incident [ru]
Budyonnovsk crisis
Bamut
Vedeno [ru; sh]
Samashki massacre
Gudermes [ru]
1996
Kizlyar–Pervomayskoye crisis
Black Sea crisis
3rd Grozny
Shatoy
Nalchik bombing [ru]
4th Grozny
v
t
e
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
The Samashki massacre (Russian: Резня в Самашках) was the mass murder of Chechen civilians by Russian Forces in April 1995 during the First Chechen War. Hundreds of Chechen civilians died as result of a Russian cleansing operation and the bombardment of the village.[3][4][5] Most of the victims were shot in cold blood at close range or killed by grenades thrown into basements where they were hiding. Others were burned alive or were shot while trying to escape their burning houses. Much of the village was destroyed and the local school blown up by Russian forces as they withdrew. The incident attracted wide attention in Russia and abroad.[6]
The March 1996 United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) report said:
It is reported that a massacre of over 100 people, mainly civilians, occurred between 7 and 8 April 1995 in the village of Samashki, in the west of Chechnya. According to the accounts of 128 eye-witnesses, Federal soldiers deliberately and arbitrarily attacked civilians and civilian dwellings in Samashki by shooting residents and burning houses with flame-throwers. The majority of the witnesses reported that many OMON troops were drunk or under the influence of drugs. They wantonly opened fire or threw grenades into basements where residents, mostly women, elderly persons and children, had been hiding.[7]
According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), this was the most notorious civilian massacre of the First Chechen War.[1] The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced that approximately 250 civilians were killed.[8] According to Amnesty International[9] and HRW more than 250 people were killed, while the elders of Samashki stated that up to 300 residents were killed during the attack.[2]
^ abRUSSIAN FEDERATION Human Rights Developments, Human Rights Watch 1996 annual report Archived May 25, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
^ abMothers' March to Grozny, War Resisters' International, June 1995 Archived August 21, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
^"The "Cleansing" Operations in Sernovodsk and Assinovskaya Were Punishment Operations".
^Binet, Laurence (June 2, 2016). "War crimes and politics of terror in Chechnya 1994-2004".
^"Chechnya: Even "normalization" is halted - Russian Federation".
^By All Available Means: The Russian Federation Ministry of Internal Affairs Operation in the village of Samashki: 1. Preface Memorial Archived February 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
^The situation of human rights in the Republic of Chechnya of the Russian Federation - Report of the Secretary-General UNCHR Archived February 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
^Wounded Bear: The Ongoing Russian Military Operation in Chechnya, GlobalSecurity.org, August 1996 (Foreign Military Studies Office)
^RUSSIAN FEDERATION Brief summary of concerns about human rights violations in the Chechen Republic[permanent dead link] Amnesty International
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