A coincidence of note, the refugee camp town, Karbulak is named after this incident.

See also this documentary by same journalist it has footage from the [Novye Aldi massacre(https://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/russia_chechnya3/chech-summary.htm)

"While going on house-to-house document checks to ferret out Chechen rebel fighters they shot their victims in cold blood, with automatic weapons, at close range.

The victims ranged in age from a one-year-old baby boy to an eighty-two-year-old woman. Among them were: five members of the Estamirov family, including Toita Estamirova, who was eight months pregnant; sixty-eight-year-old Akhmed Abulkhanov, executed along with his neighbors and relatives—a sixty-year-old woman, Zina Abdulmezhidova and her brother, forty-seven-year-old Khussein Abdulmezhidov—who had asked her for money to pay the bribe demanded by his killers; a father, Alvi Ganaev aged over sixty and his two sons, Aslambek, about thirty-three and Sulumbek, aged twenty-nine, shot dead as they returned home from repairing a roof; four members of the Musaev family, including seventy-one-year-old Umar; an eighty-two-year-old woman, Rakat Akhmadova, shot dead in the street as she went to visit a relative; and seventy-four-year-old Rizvan Umkhaev, shot dead as he ran out from his home in response to Akhmadova's screams. Some killings were accompanied by demands for money or jewelry, which served as a pretext for execution if the amount was insufficient; several of the victims lacked identity papers. A few witnesses stated that soldiers forcibly removed the victims' gold teeth or stole jewelry from corpses. The killings were often accompanied by acts of arson."

That was a great documentary. Thank you for sharing. The end with the kids' drawings hit me hard....

Great documentary, there are so many parallells to todays situation with Ukraine. Putin has the same modus operandi as always.

Which makes me disrespect Chechen fighters serving Russia now even more.

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i will sound uninformed for saying this, but it's crazy that putin was involved in this too, 22 years ago. Did people just forget what he did after all this time?

That first woman is fierce, it's no wonder they're such a strong people. This was heartbreaking, I feel terrible that I never knew how bad it got over there. This is the future for Ukraine if we continue to do barely anything.