Tando (russian: Тандо; av, Тӏандо) is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

('' selo'') in Botlikhsky District of the Republic of Dagestan,

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

. The village was seized by a Chechen guerrilla unit led by Shamil Basayev in August 1999 in the course of the

Invasion of Dagestan The Dagestan War (russian: Дагестанская война), also known as the Invasion of Militants in Dagestan (russian: Вторжение боевиков в Дагестан) began when the Chechnya-based Islamic International Peacekeepi ...

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References

by Виктор Мясников, Независимая газета ( Nezavisimaya Gazeta), 2007-09-14,
Report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee for its consideration of the Fifth Periodic Report by the Russian Federation
Rural localities in Botlikhsky District {{Dagestan-geo-stub