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They are the largest ethnic group in the region [23] and refer to themselves as Nokhchiy (pronounced [no̞xtʃʼiː]; singular Nokhchi, Nokhcho, Nakhchuo or Nakhche). [24] [25] The vast majority of Chechens are Muslims [26] and live in Chechnya, an autonomous republic within the Russian Federation.
4.4 Ethnic groups. 4.5 Religion. 4.5 ... Although over 50,000 Chechens and over 12,000 Ingush were fighting against Nazi Germany on the front ... The First Chechen ...
The Chechen diaspora (Chechen: Нохчийн диаспора, romanized: Noxçiyn diaspora) is a term used to collectively describe the communities of Chechen people who live outside of Chechnya; this includes Chechens who live in other parts of Russia.
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the North Caucasus saw renewed uprisings, particularly in Chechnya. The First Chechen War (1994–1996) [64] and Second Chechen War (1999–2000) [65] resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and widespread destruction, especially in Chechen cities like Grozny. [66]
The demographer Dalkhat Ediev, in a study of casualty figures for all ethnic groups that were singled out for "punishment" by Stalin, found that deaths due to the deportations included 125,500 of the Chechen deportees and 20,300 of the Ingush deportees, [10] or 30.8% of the Chechens and 21.3% of the Ingush. [89]
This, combined with the ethnic division of Chechnya between the natives as well as other non-Christian minorities, the "old colonists" (i.e., Cossacks) and the "recent colonists" (non-Cossack Russians), and the political divisions among each group, led to a complicated conflict pitting many different forces against each other.
The Chechen genocide [12] refers to the mass casualties suffered by the Chechen people since the beginning of the Chechen–Russian conflict in the 18th century. [13] [14] The term has no legal effect, [15] although the European Parliament recognized the 1944 forced deportation of the Chechens, which killed around a third of the total Chechen population, as an act of genocide in 2004. [16]
Germany's biggest East Asian minorities are the Chinese people in Germany, numbering 189,000 [63] and Vietnamese people in Germany, numbering 188,000, [63] many of whom living in Berlin and eastern Germany. Also there are about 35,000 Japanese citizens residing in Germany. [76] There are also groups of South Asian and Southeast Asian immigrants.