A photo, showing Tamerlan (C, bottom) Tsarnaev, accompanied by his father Anzor (L), mother Zubeidat and uncle Muhamad Suleimanov (R), is seen in this photo courtesy of the Suleimanova family in Makhachkala (REUTERS/Courtesy of Suleimanova family).

Opinion

The Chechen War Comes to Boston

April 25, 2013, Pavel K. Baev

Pavel Baev examines the trail of tears that many Chechen families followed after they were expelled from their homeland by Stalin in 1944 and looks at how the lack of a sense of belonging may have encouraged the Tsarnaev brothers on their path to terror.

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