In a March 2001 report, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has documented eight unmarked graves in Chechnya, all of which were discovered in 2000 and 2001; HRW has also documented eight cases in which dead bodies were simply dumped by roadsides, on hospital grounds or elsewhere.
As of 2008, exhuming and identifying the bodies in almost 60 identified but unopened mass burial sites remains a problem.