Product Description : Chechnya: To The Heart Of A Conflict Andrews Meier Riveting Portrait Of Chechnya A Land Ravaged By Indescribable Carnage Enables Us To Understand The Origins Of This Brutal Conflict Like No Other Recent Work The Barbaric Terrorist Siege In The Summer Of 2004 That Resulted In The Deaths Of Hundreds Of Innocent Children In Beslan Did Not Begin Either There Or In The Takeover Of A Moscow Theatre In 2002 As Andrew Meier Explains In This Utterly Compelling Account The Most Recent Chechen War Actually Broke Out On New Years Eve In 1994 When Boris Yeltsin Sent Hundreds Of Tanks To The Center Of The City Of Grozny In An Effort To Quell Popular Demands For Independence From Russia Six Years Later Meier Braving Great Personal Danger Traveled To The Scene Of One Of The Largest Civilian Massacres Carried Out By Russian Troops Reporting On The Carnage In Which Over 60 Chechen Civiliansincluding A Pregnant Woman And Many Elderlywere Brutally Slaughtered In One Of The Wars Most Horrific Mopup Operations Days After A Chechen Woman Became The Conflicts First Female Suicide Bomber Meier Visited This Wartorn Province Encountering Among Others Kidnappers Wahhabi Islamists Aligned With The Taliban And A Stream Of Russian Mothers Arriving At The Morgue To Identify Their Fallen Soldier Sons Chechnya Is Meiers Stunning Report From A Region Where The Death Toll Has Already Exceeded 100000 People And A Book That Attempts To Comprehend What Compels Men To Shoot Children In The Back