Shali ( ; , '' Şela '' ) is a town and the administrative center of Shalinsky District of the Chechen Republic , Russia . Population : Sheikh Mansur was based here in 1786 . On January 3 , 1995 , during the course of the First Chechen War , Shali was repeatedly bombed with cluster bombs by Russian jet aircraft
repeatedly bombed
1995 Shali cluster bomb attack
Shali, Chechen Republic