Photo Gallery

Since the war began in 1994, thousands of Chechen children have been wounded and maimed. As the violence continues, children suffer the consequences. The photos in this gallery are meant to illustrate the types of injuries inflicted on children in Chechnya's war.

(photos courtesty of Dr. Roza Bataeva, and of the Russian Children's Fund)

Photo #1
Born 1991. In 1995, during a Russian shelling attack on Grozny, this child was hit in the abdomen by shrapnel. At the time this photo was taken, he had undergone six operations to remove shrapnel fragments from his liver and large intestine and still had shrapnel in his pancreas and infections of the large intestine.




Photo #2:
Born 1990. During an April 1995 rocket attack on Nazhaurt by Russian helicopter gunships, this child suffered steam burns (from an exploding hot water stove) with 60 percent of her body suffering 3rd degree burns (including chest, back, neck, feet and legs). At the time this photo was taken she had been undergoing treatment in Chechnya's neighboring republic of Dagestan, but the skin grafts were not working.


Photo #3:
Born 1985. In a May 1995 Russian tank attack on Grozny this child's house was burned--42 percent of his body suffered burns (chest, back, heat, feet,legs, arms, hands).






Photo #4:
Born 1986. In September 1993, in his apartment in Grozny, this child was hit in the spine with gunfire. His mother was killed, and he was left paralyzed from the chest down. At the time this photo was taken there were still bullets in his body.





Photo #5:
Born 1985. One of five children injured by a landmine in September 1995. At the time this photo was taken had substantial shrapnel still in legs, arms, and especially abdomen.






Photo #6:
Born in 1987. Stepped on a landmine in April 2000 in Urus Martan. His right leg was amputated. At the time this photo was taken he still had shrapnel in his chest.

 

Photo #7:
Makha’s fate is shared by hundreds of other children in Chechnya and around the world where bullets and bombs rain down from the sky. Makha was just a baby. Her mother grabbed her to protect her. A shell hit her mother and killed her instantly. Makha’s legs were shattered. Today she is 12 years old. She lives in poverty with a relative. She has no way of acquiring an education because there is no money for transportation to take her to school.


Photo #8:
Patients at the Children's Neurological Hospital in Grozny.