In December 2000 Andrei Babitsky, a Russian journalist working for the U.S. funded radio station Radio Liberty, went missing in Chechnya. He had always been a very brave journalist going right into the front line to report on the war and had developed very strong links with the Chechen army. He spent a lot of time with them and thus formed a very different opinion about what was going on in that war to the one expounded by the Russian government and Vladimir Putin.
After some of the footage he shot was shown on Russian television he was captured by the Russian army and held captive in a so-called filtration camp in Northern Chechnya. The Russian army was capturing all the Chechen men and boys as they fled the war. Babitsky was part of a small group of journalists committed to telling the truth about what was happening in Grozny and Chechnya.
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