Grozny OMON friendly fire incident

Grozny OMON friendly fire incident
DateMarch 2, 2000
Location
Grozny, Chechnya
Result At least 37 OMON Military Police killed

The Grozny OMON friendly fire incident took place on March 2, 2000, when an OMON (Russian special-purpose police) unit from Podolsk, supported by paramilitary police from the Sverdlovsk Oblast in armored vehicles, opened friendly fire on a motorized column of OMON from Sergiyev Posad (Moscow Oblast), which had just arrived in Chechnya to replace them.

More than 20 were killed and more than 30 injured in friendly fire between the Russian units.[1] Chechen rebels, allegedly helped by the local militia, were initially blamed for the attack,[2] but independent journalists uncovered the facts, forcing the authorities to admit the truth.[3]

  1. ^ "Case Of Baysayeva V. Russia". Cmiskp.echr.coe.int. Retrieved 2014-02-24.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference rebel was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Russia invented ambush by Chechens to hide friendly-fire massacre