Fighting Persists Amid Amnesty
Russian troops and Chechen police battled for a second day with rebels in an eastern Chechen town in fighting that killed at least 20 people, even as an amnesty offer to rebels came into effect.
The limited amnesty, approved by Russia’s parliament, was touted as a step toward peace, offering immunity from prosecution to some rebels who agree to give up their weapons by Sept. 1.
But fighting persisted, particularly in Argun, a town in the eastern part of the war-ravaged republic where a convoy of Russian troops was ambushed.
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