Tom de Waal : The region is outwardly much more quiet now , but a low-level Islamist insurgency continues in and around Chechnya that takes dozens of lives each year and is mostly out of the headlines . Boston suspects are Chechen , a minority group that has suffered under Russia . De Waal : Their parents were in two savage wars with Russia and displaced from homeland . Suspects live a typical Chechen life of migration , he says , part of a macho culture . They resent the ' ` ` ' , '' he says ; suspects seem to have adopted it .
Tom de Waal : Boston suspects are Chechen , a minority group that has suffered under Russia . De Waal : Their parents were in two savage wars with Russia and displaced from homeland . Suspects live a typical Chechen life of migration , he says , part of a macho culture . They resent the ' ` ` ' , '' he says ; suspects seem to have adopted it .