Last week a German video tape was released showing Russian troops doing a mass burial of bound Chechen soldiers.

The Chechen soldiers who murdered hostages in the Russian hospital deserve to be tried as criminals.

There is no way to judge who is correct, although the Chechen soldiers usually lose far fewer men in battle than do the Russians.

On the other are Chechen soldiers vowing to fight to the death.

Chechen soldiers have fought superior forces every time, with daggers, knives, rocks, even poison.

The Chechen soldiers have been hurt badly after more than a year of fighting for independence from Russia.

They were Chechen soldiers, some of whom probably had even been Russian Spetsnaz at some point.

Chechen soldiers danced in joy today three blocks from the train station where hundreds of their compatriots were engaged in a bitter firefight.

One can drive into town in a beat-up old car, as almost all Chechen soldiers do, and hope that nobody stops or shells it.

They then made their way to the deep trenches that the Chechen soldiers had constructed during the days of negotiations before the Russians began their attack.