Desecration of the Dead

in the campaign “Denikin's terror in Chechnya: destroyed auls and 15 thousand dead (1919)”

After capturing Alkhan-Yurt at the end of March 1919 the Volunteer Army for a month did not let the residents bury their dead - historians Ya. Z. Akhmadov and E. Kh. Khasmagomadov write: "As a punishment for the stubborn resistance, the White command for the course of a month did not permit the bodies of the village's fallen defenders to be committed to the earth"[1].

ID: C1174.T0163
Start: February 1919
End: December 1919
Contributors: decolonial.ist project

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