BOP 2006 > Still Photography Winners > Photojournalist of the Year (Over 115,000 circulation)
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Largely ignored by the international community, the war in Chechnya is now Europe's longest-running and bloodiest conflict. No one knows exactly how many civilians have died since 1994 but the number runs into the tens of thousands. The city of Grozny, the republic’s only urban and professional centre, still lies in ruins more than a decade after the fighting started. In 2003, the Russian authorities began a campaign to repatriate 180,000 Chechen Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) living in Ingushetia, a neighbouring republic. Anxious to assert their military and political efficacy, the Russian government sought to deny the existence of ongoing warfare in Chechnya, insisting that the Russian army had prevailed. Yet the presence of numerous refugee camps in Ingushetia and other surrounding states undermined this doubtful claim. 34,000 IDPs still remain in Ingushetia either because they’re too afraid to return or because they have nothing and no one to go back to in Chechnya. With winter now over, some IDPs are beginning their fifth year of exile.
Tahran fled from Komsomolskaya in Chechnya with his mother and brother after witnessing their father being killed by masked gunmen in the family’s courtyard. Tahran now lives in the Maslozavod IDP settlement which is situated in the grounds of a former oil factory in the remote area of Karabulak. He and his brother Rezvan, are receiving counselling from psycho-counsellors. Whilst Rezvan is making marked improvements Tahran remains extremely traumatized and refuses to speak. Here he stares out of the wooden hut where he lives with Rezvan, their mother and grandmother.
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