October 17, 2003

Chechen Students Attacked in Russia

By BRYON MACWILLIAMS

Mobs in a city in southwestern Russia set upon and beat dozens of ethnic Chechen students last month during several well-organized attacks apparently motivated by race. The mobs, consisting primarily of young men, injured at least 54 students at universities and high schools in Nal'chik, a city of 250,000 in the republic of Kabardino-Balkariya, in the northern Caucasus Mountains.

Members of ethnic minority groups, particularly dark-skinned students from the Caucasus region, Africa, and

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