Usually when we hear the term “Dirty War,” we immediately think of dictatorial Argentina in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the military junta dispatched its opponents with extreme prejudice, widespread fear and violence, and unimaginable cruelty (torture interrogations and dropping prisoners out of airplanes over the ocean were just a few methods). In short, it features among the very worst human rights cases in contemporary Latin American history. Whether it is appropriate or not, Human Rights Watch has just produced a new report on the Russian government’s policy in Ingushetia, which uses the term “dirty war” to describe the state’s tactics in fighting the insurgency.