 [28] Taking a twenty-day-long in unventilated trains,[29] the Chechens found their ties to history and their kindred brutally maimed.Deemed an impediment to the journey, many of the aged “who could not be moved from their beds, were either killed or …left to starve unattended”,[30] while at Khaybakh, 770 women, children and aged “were shut in the collective stable, which was then set ablaze”.