First Chechen War - OMON and other federal forces killed at least 103 civilians while seizing the border village of Samashki
Time: Friday Apr 7, 1995
Place: Samashki, Chechnya, Russia
Details: Following the fall of Grozny, the Russian government slowly but systematically expanded its control over the lowland areas and then into the mountains. In what was dubbed the worst massacre in the war, the OMON and other federal forces killed at least 103 civilians while seizing the border village of Samashki on 7 April (several hundred more were detained and beaten or otherwise tortured).
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