Attacks on humanitarian corridors in Chechnya

Humanitarian corridors constitute a system of safe routes out of the combat zone. According to Geneva Conventions, it is necessary to ensure the opportunity to enter the civilian population from the combat zone to safe areas These corridors are not under fire, as they must be notified populations, which possibly provided transportation. In the "security zones" to the civilian population security is guaranteed: either they are under the full and effective control of one of the parties, or, if necessary, provide appropriate arrangements on both sides of the conflict.
Attacks on humanitarian corridors in Chechnya
The Russian forces informed of granting humanitarian corridors to let peaceful inhabitants escape from Grozny who released from blockages and cellars. However as soon as they have tried to pass, Russians again has opened fire. Many inhabitants died, survived have had to return to the shelters again.
Humanitarian corridor for the civilian population was absent in fact, as they were target to attacks. Since the opening of corridors of the city went about 8 thousand people. However, the number of refugees interviewed fleeing of Grozny is not declared on the corridors, arguing that it would be more dangerous to report on.
In late 2000, it was announced humanitarian corridors would be opened. Hoping to leave the city at the post Kavkaz-1 accumulated a huge column of refugees, reach a length of 13km and a width of four vehicles according to witnesses. October 29, 2000 soldiers announced that the corridor will not be opened and refugees to return to the city. After that was done to an air strike on tardigrade large convoy of refugees.
Very early on in the war, on September 30th 1999, Putin began the general bombing of civilian areas of Grozny (which the Chechens referred to as "Dzhokkarghala", i.e. Dzhokkar-town, named after the first president). Around the same time the Russians finally reached Grozny (it had taken them awhile due to once again persistent Chechen resistance), bombs exploded in the market place. They were sent by the Russian army. The marketplace was clearly a non-combat zone (not to mention the place where harmless families needed to obtain food for the plate), and a purely civilian area. It killed nearly 130 people in that one day alone. The following day, Russian president Vladimir Putin responded to criticism of the civilian bombing-

I can confirm that an explosion did take place in Grozny in a marketplace. But... it is not an ordinary market... Actually, it was a weapons warehouse, an arms supply base. This place is one of the headquarters of the bandit detachments.
One particularly notorious incident was the Russian bombing of the Chechen town of Katyr-Yurt . The town, which allegedly (though this was not proved) supplied information and resources to the separatist side, was to be bombed into submission. A large majority of the inhabitants were already killed and the town (which did not actively (physically) fight Russian aggression) was nearly completely flattened. At a certain point, the remaining inhabitants sent a message that they wished for no conflict with the Russian army, and they were transported away in trucks bearing numerous white flags. These trucks were then bombed. There are no known survivors. Some, such as Wood, have speculated that the reason the order to bomb the civilian vessel was given was to ensure there were no known survivors to tell of the event-- unfortunately, both Russian liberals such as Politskaya and Western journalists (and unsurprisingly, Chechen sources) widely publicized the event.
The Russian side, during both wars, has been reported by journalists (even, notably, a couple Russian independent journalists)to be using vacuum bombs. Vacuum bombs are officially banned by the Geneva conventions, and are classified as a weapon against humanity.
The Russians have also been involved in the mass kidnapping of Chechen males deemed to be possible fighters (though, as Wood points out, possible fighters in the Russian point of view includes, as we have seen, 12-year-olds), and the hoarding of the prisoners into zachistki (Russian: cleansing) camps, often compared to concentration camps. At least one mass grave has been unveiled. .

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