Female Bombers

The Curious Phenomenon of Russia: History & Russia’s Female Suicide Bombers

The Curious Phenomenon of Russia: History & Russia’s Female Suicide Bombers

Suicide bombings are nothing new — it is a tactic that been in use since the early 1980s — but it has typically been a man’s game. Until recently, that is. There is no place where female suicide bombers have blossomed more than in the Caucasus region of Russia: Chechnya and Dagestan. The practice of suicide bombings did not originate here but seems to be thriving in the Caucasus.