The soldiers have also been forced to contend with a new trend, suicide bombings and other attacks committed by young Chechen women.

The bombing killed two people and the Chechen women were sentenced, respectively, to 16 and 19 years.

A Chechen woman was dragged into an abandoned house, where she expected to be raped and killed.

One Chechen woman told me of a cleansing that went on for 48 hours.

In one room an elderly Chechen woman, surrounded by her relatives, was dying.

He would also marry two Chechen women.

Officials initially identified a Chechen woman as the bomber but retracted the statement later.

Two Chechen women were thought to have carried nonmetallic explosives onto the planes, officials said.

I am a Chechen woman and no longer believe Russia is a great nation.

The majority of them were boys, claimed the Chechen woman.