CAUSE? >
Second Chechen War -- During the initial campaign, Russian military and
pro-Russian Chechen paramilitary forces faced Chechen separatists in
open combat, and seized the Chechen capital Grozny after a winter siege that lasted from late 1999 to the following February 2000 -- The assault on Grozny started in early December 1999 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War
EFFECT? > Mudslides in Vargas, Venezuela -- The 1999 Vargas tragedy
was a disaster that struck the Vargas State of Venezuela in 15th
December 1999, when the torrential rains and the flash floods and debris
flows that followed on 14–16 December killed tens of thousands of
people, destroyed thousands of homes, and led to the complete collapse
of the state's infrastructure.
According to relief workers,
the neighborhood of Los Corales was buried under three metres (9.8 feet)
of mud; and a high percentage of homes were simply swept away to the
ocean -- Roughly 30,000 people perished > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vargas_tragedy
NOTE: On 16 April 2009, the counter-terrorism operation in Chechnya was officially ended.[1] As the main bulk of the army was withdrawn, the burden of dealing with the ongoing low-level insurgency mainly fell on the shoulders of the local police force. Three months later, the exiled leader of the separatist government, Akhmed Zakayev, called for a halt to armed resistance against the Chechen police force starting on 1 August, and said he hoped that "starting with this day Chechens will never shoot at each other".[25] The exact death toll from this conflict is unknown. Unofficial estimates range from 25,000 to 50,000 dead or missing, mostly civilians in Chechnya.
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