bedlam and more than 100 vert goes in moscow. the zas my he family escaped the violence of the region by making their way to the u.s. he would tell me that he was from chechnya. luis vasquez was friends of tamerlan in high school. that s where he s from. that s where he told me he had struggles. 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 due value has studied and written about the region. for most people that s just a traumatic experience. 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.