Chechen genocide

Chechen genocide
Chechen genocide
Part of the Chechen–Russian conflict
	A Russian soldier stands on a mass grave of Chechens in Komsomolskoye, who were killed in the Second Chechen War, 2000
Location	North Caucasus
Date	1785 – 2017
Target	Chechens
Attack type	Genocide, population transfer, ethnic cleansing, massacre, starvation
Deaths	40,000 to 400,000 including the peoples of Dagestan (1864); 123,000 to 400,000 including Ingush casualties (1944-1948); 50,000 to 130,000 in the First Chechen War (1994-1996); 30,000 to 80,000 in the Second Chechen War (1999-2009);
Perpetrators	Russian Empire and its successor states the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation
Motive	Russian imperialism, Russian nationalism, Russification, Anti-Chechen sentiment, Islamophobia, Racism

The Chechen genocide refers to the mass casualties carried out on the Chechen people during the various stages of the Russia–Chechnya conflict since the second half of the 18th to early 21st centuries. The term has no legal effect, although the European Parliament has recognized the 1944 forced deportation of Chechens, which killed an estimated 1/3-1/2 of the total Chechen population, as an act of genocide. The Ukrainian Rada has also condemned Russia's genocide of the Chechen people.

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