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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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    Videos from Chechnya are all over the Internet. They're constantly packaged as part of the Al-Qaeda network recruitment.

    April 21, 2013, Fiona Hill, AFP

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    Chechnya has a very brutal history. You can just imagine two young Chechen boys growing up [in that violence] and then being dropped in the United States…And here they are in their 20s, a classic time for people to search for identity.

    April 19, 2013, Fiona Hill, Christian Science Monitor

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    Where the U.S. wanted to talk about Afghanistan, [Putin] wanted to talk about Chechnya and have the U.S. turn a blind eye to the human-rights abuses there.

    April 19, 2013, Fiona Hill, USA Today

  • In the News

    Chechnya, like Dagestan, like Syria, like Pakistan, like Iraq, like Afghanistan, all these places where there's been tumult and upheaval and conflict and regional dislocation, continue to become basically the recruiting grounds for people who have a very strong sense of grievance. And again, we're talking small numbers of people.

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