WHY THE
Life has a way of completing circles, and in politics, tensions first ascend spirally upwards before they arrive at a breaking point. So to make a long story short let me show you WHY
HERE IS THE NEWS REPORT FOR THE BLAST-39 WERE KILLED.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/world/europe/31moscow.html
With the break-up of the
WHY? Chechyna is blessed with Oil, and the Russians were not ready to part with it.
The Chechens were then fuelled by a “war of liberation” that caused then to delve into bitter attacks.
In 1994 nearly 4 yrs after, the Chechens had set-up their own autonomous government and held elections, Boris Yeltsin sent in his Russian forces, triggering the 1st Chechen War. This move worked two-folds for him, Yeltsin wanted control of the
However the Chechens fought back and won more so perhaps due to Russians underestimating their potential, and in 1996 Yeltsin had to admit defeat and recognize the rights of the Chechen people, yet he was not true to his word and refused to recognize the State immediately.
http://www.britannica.com/facts/10/40936570/May-12-1997-Presidents-Boris-Yeltsin-of-Russia
President Aslan Maskhadov the Chechen elected ruler, tried in vain to start a peaceful dialogue to resolve the Chechen conflict but the Russians would hear nothing of it.
This led to militant up-rising in
This led to the re-branding of the Chechens as “TERRORISTS”.
The Chechen President was a man who was committed to the diplomatic resolution of the conflict and he was content with the 5yr “normalization” that
As the tensions heightened things did not result in a peaceful settlement as Russian forces killed the Chechen President while he went into hiding in a military attack in March 2005.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/16/opinion/16wed3.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/09/international/europe/09chechnya.html?_r=1
What arose however was the Russian sentiment that saw the Chechen land as a “win” that they needed to satisfy their ego and claim in the region, much like the Indians and Pakistani’s outlook towards
And here on after started the bloody tennis match between the two countries. Military instigated carpet bombing by the Russians destroying whole villages on one end, and Chechen rebels carrying out terrorist attacks, led by Shamil Basayev, on the other.
Vladimir Putin first as he took office placated the Chechens by giving them hope for their own state,
“MOSCOW, Nov 10, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Russia will guarantee the Chechen people the right to decide the future of their province through a referendum on a new Constitution that will be followed by establishment of governing authorities, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday.”
Yet Putin followed this with a ferocious military campaign aided by forces hostile to muslims such as
The free world, especially the muslim world and the United Nations watched without condemnation. 200,000 people fled to refugee camps, and many just simply went missing, in particular to a “concentration style” camp called Cheornakosova that makes Abu Ghraib seem like a 5 star hotel, clearly violating the Geneva Convention.
http://www.watchdog.cz/index.php?show=000000-000008-000001-000016&lang=1
http://www.iwpr.net/?p=crs&s=f&o=335805&apc_state=henh
Accounts of things that happen there include- body parts being chopped off, tongues nailed to tables, fathers forced to rape sons, deprivation of food etc in this camp and others such as Urus Martan. It is invariably clear that brutal actions by Russian federal forces in
POST-SEPT 11TH however the world turned its attention across the Pacific to the
How many lives must it take?
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