Madam, - Cormac O'Brien (letters, June 21st) makes some excellent points about the horrific situation in Chechnya, yet he greatly underestimates the casualties. The Kremlin's own figures put the death toll at between two and three hundred thousand people. This bloodbath began following some very suspicious "terrorist" bombings in Moscow in September 1999, in which Russia's own security services, the FSB, were implicated. - Yours, etc,
MARK SUGRUE, Egham, Surrey.