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![theatlantic:
There Are Almost No Chechens in the United States—Here’s Why
Chechens have a horrific, bloody history. Hundreds of thousands of people died in two wars with Russia in the 90s and early 2000s, and the capital, Grozny, was nearly leveled to the ground. There were claims that Russia was attempting ethnic cleansing. “Not a single night goes by without someone disappearing. Masked men come into homes and take people away,” one resident told a Boston Globe reporter in 2003.
Unlike people from Iraq, Somalia and other hotbeds of strife, however, very few displaced Chechens resettled in the U.S., despite the fact that the decade of conflict caused 350,000 Chechens to flee from their homes.
So why are there so few Chechens in America? Mainly, because we don’t resettle Chechen refugees here.
Read more. [Image: Reuters]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/4007717fd497f24374b649e014df01fa/tumblr_mlpxfcMhgB1qcokc4o1_1280.jpg)
There Are Almost No Chechens in the United States—Here’s Why
Chechens have a horrific, bloody history. Hundreds of thousands of people died in two wars with Russia in the 90s and early 2000s, and the capital, Grozny, was nearly leveled to the ground. There were claims that Russia was attempting ethnic cleansing. “Not a single night goes by without someone disappearing. Masked men come into homes and take people away,” one resident told a Boston Globe reporter in 2003.
Unlike people from Iraq, Somalia and other hotbeds of strife, however, very few displaced Chechens resettled in the U.S., despite the fact that the decade of conflict caused 350,000 Chechens to flee from their homes.
So why are there so few Chechens in America? Mainly, because we don’t resettle Chechen refugees here.
Read more. [Image: Reuters]
