Large-scale “cleansing” in Tsotsin-Yurt with robberies, detentions and beatings
December 30, 2001 *** From December 30, 2001 to January 3, 2002, a large-scale “cleanup” was carried out in the village of Tsotsin-Yurt. At dawn, several groups (units of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, police officers, district military commandant’s office, special forces of the FSB and GRU) in accompanied by armored vehicles, entered the village. Moving along the streets, they checked house after house.