Chechen genocide
| Chechen genocide | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Chechen–Russian conflict | |
A Russian soldier stands on an open mass grave of Chechens shortly after the Komsomolskoye massacre, 2000 | |
| Location | North Caucasus |
| Date | c. 1785 – 2017 |
| Target | Chechen people |
Attack type | Genocide, mass murder, ethnic cleansing, deportation, mass rape |
| Deaths | 643,000–1,050,000 |
| Perpetrators | Russian Empire (until 1917) Russian SFSR (until 1922) Soviet Union (until 1991) Russian Federation (1991–2017) |
| Motive | |
The Chechen genocide refers to the mass casualties suffered by the Chechen people since the beginning of the Chechen–Russian conflict in the 18th century. The term has no legal effect, although the European Parliament recognized the 1944 forced deportation of the Chechens, which killed around a third of the total Chechen population, as an act of genocide in 2004. Similarly, in 2022, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine condemned the "genocide of the Chechen people" by Russia during the First Chechen War and the Second Chechen War.