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In the past, the Chechens have been cast as bandits. The Russian government took this engrained sentiment and simply extrapolated to labeling the Chechen population as terrorists. When asked how he would describe the wife of a Chechen fighter, Russian General Shamanov responded, “she is a female bandit” (Gilligan 207). ................
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