Chechen war at its most brutal
The Angel Of Grozny. By Åsne Seierstad, Virago, €18
The Angel Of Grozny. By Åsne Seierstad, Virago, €18
The Angel Of Grozny opens with a description of a feral street child brutally smashing a small dog’s head to bits with a rock. It doesn’t get any more upbeat from there on in.
Since Dzhokhar Dudaev’s initial efforts to achieve secession from the Russian Federation in 1992, Chechnya has endured two invasions by its vast neighbour.
The first was in late 1994 and ...