21.   Video footage Kdam shot showed villagers using their bare hands to dig through the snow-covered rubble of ruined homes.

22.   Upon arriving in Yaxemel, they lit candles and copal incense, and looked over the ruined homes they had left four years before.

23.   Local inhabitants wandering in the streets Tuesday outside their ruined homes, said they had seen the bodies of three Chechen fighters being carried away.