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chechen extremists would wage a campaign of terror across russia, killing 186 children at a school in beslan and more than 100 theater-goers in moscow. the tsarnaev family escaped the violence in the region by making their way to the u.s. >> he would tell me that he was from chechen. >> luis vasquez was friends with tamerlan in high school. >> that's where he's from. that's where he told me he had struggled. he didn't really elaborate. >> there's a whole generation of chechens who grew up with their families being displaced, relatives being killed and so on. >> thomas devaal has studied and written about the region. >> for most people that's a traumatic experiment, but obviously for a small minority, this is something that is in their dna that drives them. >> and like many displaced chechens, tamerlan may have struggled to fit in. chechnya is still home to militant separatist groups, and the home tamerlan's father grew up in has been destroyed by war. relatives still live here.