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Sat, 12 Feb 2000 00:00
THOSE BRAVE CHECHENS!
Author: "*aku_siapa*"
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Lest we forget... The Chechens are only defending themselves! Stop trying to justify the atrocities inflicted by the Russians upon these brave people. Here is a brief history of Russia's involvement in the North Caucasus region, which neighbors the oil-rich Caspian Sea and the former Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Georgia. 1722 - Peter the Great annexes Caspian Sea regions of Dagestan at start of a 150-year military campaign to absorb North Caucasus region into Russian Empire. Mid-19th century - Legendary Imam Shamil uses Islam to weld mountain tribes of Dagestan and Chechnya into formidable fighting force. His ambition is to create a theocratic, Islamic state but he is eventually defeated by Russia's superior numbers and technology. 1917 - Russian revolution brings Communists to power but Islam and traditional clan system remain strong in North Caucasus despite persecution from atheistic Moscow regime. 1944 - Soviet dictator Josef Stalin deports entire Chechen people and their neighbors the Ingush to Central Asia for "collaboration" with German Nazi troops. Tens of thousands die. 1957 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev allows the Chechens back to the Caucasus, setting up the Checheno-Ingush republic. Oct 1991 - Following the overthrow of local communist ruler Doku Zavgayev, Soviet air force general Dzhokhar Dudayev wins a disputed local poll and declares Chechnya independent. Russia rejects any talk of independence but takes no action against Dudayev and allows him to run Chechnya. Dec 1994 - President Boris Yeltsin sends troops to Chechnya to crush the independence movement. Tens of thousands, mostly civilians, die in ensuing 20-month war. The capital, Grozny, is reduced to rubble. Rebels are driven to the mountains but are not defeated. Aug 1996 - Rebels seize Grozny. Moscow signs a truce on August 31 providing for a Russian pullout and deferring issue of Chechen independence for five years. Jan 1997 - Former rebel chief of staff, Aslan Maskhadov, a relative moderate, wins Chechen presidential election with almost 65 percent of vote. Last Russian troops leave Chechnya. Jan 1997 - Unidentified kidnappers seize two Russian journalists in Chechnya, first in a long series of abductions for ransom money which fuel tensions with Moscow and effectively block the reconstruction of the shattered economy. May 12 1997 - Yeltsin and Maskhadov sign peace accord but Chechnya's final status still unresolved. Moscow says Chechnya must stay part of Russian Federation, albeit with wide autonomy. September 1998 - Chechen warlords demand the resignation of President Maskhadov, saying he is too conciliatory towards Moscow. Maskhadov also under pressure from Russia, which says he is failing to combat organized criminal gangs whose frequent kidnappings have turned Chechnya into no-go zone for outsiders. July 1999 - Russian troops clash increasingly fiercely with Chechen fighters near Chechnya's border with Dagestan. Aug 7 1999 - Russian helicopters pound positions held by Islamic militants in Dagestan said to have come from Chechnya. Moscow vows firm action to dislodge intruders. Aug 8 - Russian Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin visits Dagestan to discuss crisis with local commanders and officials. Aug 9 - Yeltsin sacks Stepashin and nominates security chief Vladimir Putin as Russian prime minister. Stepashin says Russia could lose Dagestan just as it lost Chechnya. Aug 10 - Islamic fighters declare Dagestan an independent state and call for holy war of liberation against Moscow rule. Aug 11 - Feared Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev declares he is behind Dagestan rebellion and vows to drive Russian "infidels" from whole North Caucasus region. Russian officials say 10 federal troops have died and 27 more wounded so far. Aug 12 - President Yeltsin says he is confident of victory over the rebels. Warplanes and artillery continue to pound the rebels' positions as more men and supplies arrive in Dagestan. Aug 13 - Russian Acting Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says an assault has begun to drive the rebels out of their mountain strongholds and that they would be hit everywhere, even in bases in Chechnya. Aug 14 - Russia says at least 200 guerrillas have been killed in the fighting and puts Russian losses at 14. The rebels, via a site on the Internet, say they have killed 130 Russian soldiers and officers, destroyed nine helicopters and shot down one fighter jet. Aug 15 - Chechnya declares month-long state of emergency, from August 16 to September 16, including a curfew and ban on all media expect state television, saying it must be ready for acts of provocation by Russia. from: http://www.foxsports.com/
Re: THOSE BRAVE CHECHENS!
Author: Ivan Gowch
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 00:00
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 14:13:28 +0800, "*aku_siapa*" <aku_...@reformasi.com> wrote: >Lest we forget... The Chechens are only defending themselves! >Stop trying to justify the atrocities inflicted by the Russians upon these >brave people. The courage of the Chechens is not in question. Their sanity is. Since winning de facto independence from Russia in 1996 the Chechens have proved they can neither handle nor do they deserve independence. Under the ministrations of the Chechen warlords the territory became a lawless haven for kidnappers and other criminals of various descriptions. Then, as if that weren't bad enough, the Muslim fanatics made the astonishingly stupid mistake of trying to export their "revolution" to Dagestan, which wanted no part of it. Given these circumstances, the Russians had no choice but to crush the Islamists and destroy their territorial ambitions and religious colonialism. This they now seem to have done, and instead of buying into transparent propaganda about Russian "atrocities," reasonable people everywhere should applaud and support Moscow in its efforts to pacify Chechnya once and for all. -Ivan Gowch, go...@hotmail.com
Re: THOSE BRAVE CHECHENS!
Author: "russian jihad"
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 00:00
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bru>.. hiya have you got any info on the golden years 91-94 before the brutal russian invasion. especiaily intrested in economics and social issues.ive got very little but from the sources ive seen they were doing very well and even better than russia! i heard that yeltsins first invasion was motivated by nepotism and greed . *aku_siapa* wrote in message <38a4...@news.tm.net.my>... >Lest we forget... The Chechens are only defending themselves! >Stop trying to justify the atrocities inflicted by the Russians upon these >brave people. > >Here is a brief history of Russia's involvement in the North Caucasus >region, which neighbors the oil-rich Caspian Sea and the former Soviet >republics of Azerbaijan and Georgia. > >1722 - Peter the Great annexes Caspian Sea regions of Dagestan at start of a >150-year military campaign to absorb North Caucasus region into Russian >Empire. > >Mid-19th century - Legendary Imam Shamil uses Islam to weld mountain tribes >of Dagestan and Chechnya into formidable fighting force. His ambition is to >create a theocratic, Islamic state but he is eventually defeated by Russia's >superior numbers and technology. > >1917 - Russian revolution brings Communists to power but Islam and >traditional clan system remain strong in North Caucasus despite persecution >from atheistic Moscow regime. > >1944 - Soviet dictator Josef Stalin deports entire Chechen people and their >neighbors the Ingush to Central Asia for "collaboration" with German Nazi >troops. Tens of thousands die. > >1957 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev allows the Chechens back to the >Caucasus, setting up the Checheno-Ingush republic. > >Oct 1991 - Following the overthrow of local communist ruler Doku Zavgayev, >Soviet air force general Dzhokhar Dudayev wins a disputed local poll and >declares Chechnya independent. >Russia rejects any talk of independence but takes no action against Dudayev >and allows him to run Chechnya. > > >Dec 1994 - President Boris Yeltsin sends troops to Chechnya to crush the >independence movement. Tens of thousands, mostly civilians, die in ensuing >20-month war. The capital, Grozny, is reduced to rubble. Rebels are driven >to the mountains but are not defeated. > >Aug 1996 - Rebels seize Grozny. Moscow signs a truce on August 31 providing >for a Russian pullout and deferring issue of Chechen independence for five >years. > >Jan 1997 - Former rebel chief of staff, Aslan Maskhadov, a relative >moderate, wins Chechen presidential election with almost 65 percent of vote. >Last Russian troops leave Chechnya. > >Jan 1997 - Unidentified kidnappers seize two Russian journalists in >Chechnya, first in a long series of abductions for ransom money which fuel >tensions with Moscow and effectively block the reconstruction of the >shattered economy. > >May 12 1997 - Yeltsin and Maskhadov sign peace accord but Chechnya's final >status still unresolved. Moscow says Chechnya must stay part of Russian >Federation, albeit with wide autonomy. > >September 1998 - Chechen warlords demand the resignation of President >Maskhadov, saying he is too conciliatory towards Moscow. Maskhadov also >under pressure from Russia, which says he is failing to combat organized >criminal gangs whose frequent kidnappings have turned Chechnya into no-go >zone for outsiders. > >July 1999 - Russian troops clash increasingly fiercely with Chechen fighters >near Chechnya's border with Dagestan. > >Aug 7 1999 - Russian helicopters pound positions held by Islamic militants >in Dagestan said to have come from Chechnya. Moscow vows firm action to >dislodge intruders. > >Aug 8 - Russian Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin visits Dagestan to discuss >crisis with local commanders and officials. > >Aug 9 - Yeltsin sacks Stepashin and nominates security chief Vladimir Putin >as Russian prime minister. Stepashin says Russia could lose Dagestan just as >it lost Chechnya. > >Aug 10 - Islamic fighters declare Dagestan an independent state and call for >holy war of liberation against Moscow rule. > >Aug 11 - Feared Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev declares he is behind >Dagestan rebellion and vows to drive Russian "infidels" from whole North >Caucasus region. Russian officials say 10 federal troops have died and 27 >more wounded so far. > >Aug 12 - President Yeltsin says he is confident of victory over the rebels. >Warplanes and artillery continue to pound the rebels' positions as more men >and supplies arrive in Dagestan. >Aug 13 - Russian Acting Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says an assault has >begun to drive the rebels out of their mountain strongholds and that they >would be hit everywhere, even in bases in Chechnya. > >Aug 14 - Russia says at least 200 guerrillas have been killed in the >fighting and puts Russian losses at 14. >The rebels, via a site on the Internet, say they have killed 130 Russian >soldiers and officers, destroyed nine helicopters and shot down one fighter >jet. > >Aug 15 - Chechnya declares month-long state of emergency, from August 16 to >September 16, including a curfew and ban on all media expect state >television, saying it must be ready for acts of provocation by Russia. > >from: http://www.foxsports.com/ > >
Re: THOSE BRAVE CHECHENS!
Author: "Leo"
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 00:00
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Yeah, must be real "brave" to try to invade a Russian republic after gaining independence. What a joke!
Re: THOSE BRAVE CHECHENS!
Author: " beng"
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I heard Russia wanted Chechnya becuase of oil. It was reported Chechnya provide 20% of Soviet oil export during the communist regime. Any one can confirm this? Ivan Gowch <go...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:38a4c3a4.7208390@news.xe.net... > On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 14:13:28 +0800, "*aku_siapa*" > <aku_...@reformasi.com> wrote: > > >Lest we forget... The Chechens are only defending themselves! > >Stop trying to justify the atrocities inflicted by the Russians upon these > >brave people. > > The courage of the Chechens is not in question. Their sanity is. > > Since winning de facto independence from Russia in 1996 the Chechens > have proved they can neither handle nor do they deserve independence. > > Under the ministrations of the Chechen warlords the territory became a > lawless haven for kidnappers and other criminals of various > descriptions. > > Then, as if that weren't bad enough, the Muslim fanatics made the > astonishingly stupid mistake of trying to export their "revolution" to > Dagestan, which wanted no part of it. > > Given these circumstances, the Russians had no choice but to crush the > Islamists and destroy their territorial ambitions and religious > colonialism. > > This they now seem to have done, and instead of buying into > transparent propaganda about Russian "atrocities," reasonable people > everywhere should applaud and support Moscow in its efforts to pacify > Chechnya once and for all. > > -Ivan Gowch, go...@hotmail.com
Re: THOSE BRAVE CHECHENS!
Author: "*aku_siapa*"
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 00:00
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*aku_siapa* <aku_...@reformasi.com> wrote in message news:38a4fb0e.0@news.tm.net.my... > Lest we forget... The Chechens are only defending themselves! > Stop trying to justify the atrocities inflicted by the Russians upon these > brave people. Moscow cracks down on media Crisis in Chechnya: special report Russia: special report Ian Traynor in Moscow Saturday January 29, 2000 The Guardian The Russian authorities have arrested a journalist who worked to expose the suffering wrought by the Chechnya war, accusing him of joining the guerrillas in the Caucasus. The arrest came as the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, yesterday stoked the fires of a new Russian militarism and nationalism by lashing out at "all sorts of scum" who were bent on tearing Russia to pieces and bringing it to its knees. "Throughout the entire history of our country, it has always been that it only takes Russia to become weaker for all sorts of scum to pop up and try to beat our country, tear it to pieces, and force it to its knees," Mr Putin said. "No one has ever succeeded, nor will they ever, because simple Russian people have always stood in the way." Russian intelligence sources yesterday told the Interfax news agency that Andrei Babitsky, a reporter for the US-funded Radio Liberty who had been missing for 12 days, had been arrested in Chechnya and faced charges of belonging to an illegal armed group. Russian RTR state television confirmed the report, quoting Oleg Aksyonov, an interior ministry spokesman, as saying Mr Babitsky was being held in Chechnya because he lacked the proper military accreditation to work in the war zone. Another leading Moscow journalist, Aleksandr Khinshteyn, who specialises in investigating sleaze in the government, has gone into hiding to avoid being taken to a psychiatric clinic by the police, who want him detained for alleged driving licence offences. A couple of hundred journalists and human rights activists demonstrated yesterday outside the police ministry in Moscow to protest against the hounding of Mr Khinshteyn, an investigative television and newspaper reporter. The press crackdown by forces under the former KGB agent Mr Putin, and the reversion to the old Soviet practice of dispatching dissident voices to psychiatric clinics, are sending ripples of fear through Moscow's independent media. "Today they want to send us to the asylum, tomorrow they'll be closing down the newspapers," said Pavel Gusev, the editor of Moscow's bestselling newspaper, Moskovsky Komsomolets, said. Mr Babitsky has courted great personal risk by spending weeks under Russian bombardment in Grozny and elsewhere in Chechnya during the four-month conflict. He is also a veteran of the past Chechen war of 1994-96. On Wednesday, Sergey Yastrzhembsky, the Russian spokesman on Chechnya, said that Mr Babitsky's disappearance proved that the Russian authorities could not guarantee the safety of journalists working in Chechnya. Oleg Panfilov, head of the Glasnost Fund monitoring media freedom, disclosed yesterday that Mr Babitsky was being held by Russian troops in a cellar in Urus-Martan, south of Grozny. "The generals will go to any lengths to prevent journalists from seeing the present war and its consequences," he said. "The detention is absolutely illegal." The reporter could be jailed for five years if found guilty of joining the Chechen guerrillas. Earlier this week Vladimir Kozin, a foreign ministry official, urged "more decisive and concrete action to create an information blockade for western journalists undertaking subversive work on Chechnya territory". The World Association of Newspapers has just written to Mr Putin to point out that the killing of 11 journalists last year in Russia made the country the most dangerous place in Europe for the media. "We remain seriously concerned at the appalling level of danger facing members of the press. Such violence fosters a climate of fear that inhibits journalistic investigation and promotes self-censorship," the letter said. "Independent journalists covering election campaigns reportedly remain at greatest risk." Mr Khinshteyn has repeatedly sought to investigate allegations of corruption made against Boris Berezovsky, the millionaire Kremlin insider, and his ally, Vladimir Rushailo, the interior minister. � Copyright Guardian Media Group plc. 2000
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"Ken!!!" wrote: > whatever it is, chechnya probably mismanaged it to hell by the time > the russians came in... Probably. Probably not. > > On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 23:08:48 +0800, " beng" <beng@phua.chu.kang> > wrote: > > >I heard Russia wanted Chechnya becuase of oil. > >It was reported Chechnya provide 20% of Soviet oil export during the > >communist regime. > >Any one can confirm this? >
Re: THOSE BRAVE CHECHENS!
Author: "Dave Francis"
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Ultimately, history will decide who was right and wrong, but I know one thing. As a country, if you are going to have a war, you should go win the damn thing. Let all the hand-wringers bitch and cry if they want, but dont do as we did in Vietnam, and as the Russians did in Afghanistan. I know one thing. Here in America, when the Afghan conflict started, we thought Russia would just roll over them. They didnt, and it had less to do with how capable the Afghans were than it did with the fact that the Russians werent the horrible brutes we thought they would be. I am convinced that if the Russians had been as cold-blooded as we thought they were, that war would have been over in a few weeks. I dont think Stalin would have had a problem, given the same military capacity, in winning that war in less than a month. Dave -- DavidJ...@USA.net (Email Address) http://www.angelfire.com/tx2/candyman (Web Page) 503/905-6832 (Fax Number) "Leo" <x_...@digicon.com> wrote in message news:886c6r$rpg$1@mirv.unsw.edu.au... > "Brave" Chechens got their arse kicked, PERIOD. > >
Re: THOSE BRAVE CHECHENS!
Author: Ken!!!
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whatever it is, chechnya probably mismanaged it to hell by the time the russians came in... On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 23:08:48 +0800, " beng" <beng@phua.chu.kang> wrote: >I heard Russia wanted Chechnya becuase of oil. >It was reported Chechnya provide 20% of Soviet oil export during the >communist regime. >Any one can confirm this? ************************************* delete SPAMMERSDIE for correspondence ICQ:42366740 *************************************
Re: THOSE BRAVE CHECHENS!
Author: "*aku_siapa*"
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*aku_siapa* <aku_...@reformasi.com> wrote in message news:38a4fb0e.0@news.tm.net.my... > Lest we forget... The Chechens are only defending themselves! > Stop trying to justify the atrocities inflicted by the Russians upon these > brave people. Outcry as Russia's new rules trap children in war zone Crisis in Chechnya: special report Amelia Gentleman in Moscow Friday January 14, 2000 The Guardian Russia came under strong international pressure yesterday to revoke a new diktat defining as rebels all Chechen males between the ages of 10 and 60, as the tougher security regulations provoked chaos and misery for civilians trying to flee heavy fighting in the region. Some children were trapped inside the war zone as a result of the rules which came into force on Wednesday and now automatically classify them as fighters. The crackdown follows a number of reversals for the Russian military offensive in recent days. M�decins Sans Fronti�res, the international humanitarian group which won the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize, yesterday accused Russia of committing war crimes in Chechnya, and the US state department told Moscow it had an obligation to respect the rights of civilians trying to escape the war zone. M�decins Sans Fronti�res made its accusation in an open letter to Washington urging President Clinton to press for an end to the war launched in late September by Moscow, which said its aim was to quash Islamic militants it blames for hundreds of kidnappings, incursions into Russian areas and a series of apartment bombings inside Russia. The president of the republic of Ingushetia - which borders Chechnya and has taken in wave after wave of refugees - also condemned Russia's new crackdown on civilians. It was crueller, he maintained, than anything done to the Chechens under Joseph Stalin's rule, when the entire nation was deported to Asia during the second world war. There was growing fear that the suffering could worsen dramatically if new "filtration camps" are set up to sift Chechen fighters from civilians detained under the new regulations; during Russia's previous war against Chechnya in 1994-96, such camps became notorious for their brutality. Russia has launched a fierce new assault on Chechnya to try to reverse successes by the rebels there earlier this week, and large numbers of civilians were yesterday trying to escape the intensified fighting. But refugees on the Chechen border with Ingushetia told of families torn apart by the Kremlin's new rules: Russian soldiers were refusing to let young boys flee the bombing with their relatives, refugees said in accounts from the scene. Datu Isigova, a refugee from the Chechen capital, Grozny, said she had been forced to abandon her 11-year-old son Arbi and her husband Suleman as she fled to Ingushetia. Other women had decided to stay in combat areas rather than leave their sons. Some men were unable to get back into Chechnya. Kairish, a hairdresser, was trying to return to his eight children living alone in a train carriage a few miles in from the border, after what he thought would be a short trip to Ingushetia to buy food and shoes. "I don't know what to do. My wife is dead and my kids have been left by themselves for two days," he told Reuters, holding a bag of bread. "I am 55, and the guards told me I'm not allowed to cross because I'm not 60." President Ruslan Aushev of Ingushetia condemned Russia's measure in the bitterest terms, describing it as "illegal and discriminatory". It would succeed only in alienating any Chechen who still felt residual sympathy for the Russians, he warned, and would prompt young men to join the rebels' cause. The problems experienced by refugees as a result of the measure were being monitored by human rights activists in Ingushetia. "Chechen males are now effectively trapped in a dangerous war. It is fundamentally unacceptable to deny civilian males - including children as young as 10 - the right to flee from from heavy fighting," said a spokesman for the New York-based group Human Rights Watch. In its open letter, published in the New York Times, M�decins Sans Fronti�res said that almost four months of indiscriminate Russian bombing of Grozny and other parts of Chechnya "constitute war crimes". During the conflict in the Serbian province of Kosovo earlier this year, the letter said to the White House, "your administration mounted an all-out public relations campaign aimed at rallying support for the humanitarian concerns of the besieged citizens of Kosovo. Where is the similar high-level, public discussion of the plight of civilians in Chechnya? Do they suffer less than the people of Kosovo?" � Copyright Guardian Media Group plc. 2000
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The party is not over until the fat lady sings! Leo wrote in message <886c6r$rpg$1...@mirv.unsw.edu.au>... >"Brave" Chechens got their arse kicked, PERIOD. > >
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No nation has a right to commence a war against another, unless that nation has been comitting genocide, or disobeying the norms of the civilized society by engaging in criminal activity. None of the above has been proved against the Chechens! Dave Francis wrote in message ... >Ultimately, history will decide who was right and wrong, but I know one >thing. As a country, if you are going to have a war, you should go win the >damn thing. Let all the hand-wringers bitch and cry if they want, but dont >do as we did in Vietnam, and as the Russians did in Afghanistan. > >I know one thing. Here in America, when the Afghan conflict started, we >thought Russia would just roll over them. They didnt, and it had less to do >with how capable the Afghans were than it did with the fact that the >Russians werent the horrible brutes we thought they would be. I am >convinced that if the Russians had been as cold-blooded as we thought they >were, that war would have been over in a few weeks. I dont think Stalin >would have had a problem, given the same military capacity, in winning that >war in less than a month. > >Dave > > >-- > >DavidJ...@USA.net (Email Address) > >http://www.angelfire.com/tx2/candyman (Web Page) > >503/905-6832 (Fax Number) > >"Leo" <x_...@digicon.com> wrote in message >news:886c6r$rpg$1@mirv.unsw.edu.au... >> "Brave" Chechens got their arse kicked, PERIOD. >> >> > >
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Author: "*aku_siapa*"
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*aku_siapa* <aku_...@reformasi.com> wrote in message news:38a4fb0e.0@news.tm.net.my... > Lest we forget... The Chechens are only defending themselves! > Stop trying to justify the atrocities inflicted by the Russians upon these > brave people. > Chechens trapped in the factory of death Crisis in Chechnya: special report Russia holds hundreds in the hunt for rebels Amelia Gentleman Sunday February 13, 2000 The Observer It is an ugly name for an ugly place. Outside Chernokozovo 'filtration camp' relatives wait for news of their menfolk. Inside, according to human rights groups, Russian soldiers are beating, raping and torturing Chechen prisoners. Chernokozovo, with about 700 detainees, is the largest of four camps in which the Russians are 'separating' terrorists from civilians. Many of the men have been summarily arrested on the flimsiest of pretexts. The camp, a former Soviet factory 30 miles north of Grozny, has been thrown together from red brick and barbed wire. The factory's tall water coolers have been converted into watchtowers; high walls make it impossible to see what is happening inside. News from behind the huge sliding doors is scarce. Relatives of those detained wait in the nearby market place for scraps of informa tion brought out by locals employed in the prison. Magomadovo Umarovna was yesterday waiting by the gate holding five garlic heads which she hoped to be able to pass to her detained son, Adlan Basayev. The orderly who serves food to the inmates had managed to smuggle out a note from him, begging her to send some kind of medicine to protect against tuberculosis. In detention since 13 January, her son's only crime was to have the same surname as the Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev. 'They checked his papers and decided he must be a relative. Why should he suffer because of his surname? None of us have ever even set eyes on Basayev. The system is very cruel,' she said. 'He wrote that there was a TB epidemic inside. I can't get the right tablets to send him. I hope the garlic may help.' His note had given few details of life within the camp. 'They're scared to write much, in case the letter goes astray. But I know things are bad for him there. Someone who was recently freed told me my son's nose was broken when he was beaten in the toilets.' This is the detention centre where Russian war correspondent Andrei Babitsky - arrested for reporting from Grozny without military permission - was allegedly held by the Russian security services, before being handed over to Chechen fighters last week in a prisoner swap. He is thought to have been badly treated during his stay. On Friday a funeral was held in Chernokozovo for another inmate who died after being beaten. 'Sometimes at night people living near the prison say they can hear the noise of people being tortured,' Umarovna said. Last week a letter detailing the brutality of the camp regime, apparently written by a Russian soldier there, was leaked to the media. He described how Chechen inmates were being systematically beaten, raped and killed. He said that Babitsky 'was beaten so badly that his glasses were flung in the air, poor guy'. The soldier expressed his sense of guilt at his participation in the brutality. Human rights organisations have also expressed concern at the conditions within these centres, set up with the aim of filtering out fighters from civilians. There is evidence that large numbers of young Chechen men are being rounded up arbitrarily and detained. Peter Bouckaert, Human Rights Watch's representative in the region, said: 'These men are being taken to unknown detention facilities and their families are not being informed of where they are. Some men are never heard of again. Given the massive abuses that took place in these centres during the last war, we are gravely concerned about this developing trend.' Explaining the scale of what the Russians insist on calling a 'cleansing operation', he said he had evidence that 120 men had been arrested en masse in Shami-Yurt, near Grozny, earlier this month. Fighters and civilians are arrested together, but there is no information to explain if and how the Russian military sets about distinguishing between the two categories. No international monitoring organisation has been permitted to visit any of the four main camps. The camps became notorious during Russia's last war with Chechnya, when many Chechen men died during their detention and many more died shortly after their release. Then human rights activists gathered horrific stories of torture - with former inmates describing being held in airless cells, or in dark mud pits dug out from the ground, often knee-deep in water. Many said they had been the victims of both psychological and physical torture. In Grozny, the war goes on. And not all of the city's residents are entirely hostile to the Russian forces. Some of Grozny's residents say they are grateful to the Russian soldiers for their drive to clear the city of fighters. Standing outside the blackened remains of the grandiose entrance to Grozny's main park (still named the Park of Culture and Rest in the name of Lenin), Pyotr Sidorov, 64, a Russian who has lived in Chechnya for most of his life, said he approved of the campaign. Behind him as he walked to collect a bucket of water for his family, a panorama of total destruction was visible. Not a single building in Grozny remains intact. 'The Russians were right to do this. We need to fight to put a sensible government in power here,' he said. � Copyright Guardian Media Group plc. 2000
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I am not pretending to know who is right and wrong. I am just saying, if you are going to go to war, you should go to win..... Dave -- DavidJ...@USA.net (Email Address) http://www.angelfire.com/tx2/candyman (Web Page) 503/905-6832 (Fax Number) "Amigocabal" <par...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:ixFp4.949$QK6.14664@news4.mia... > No nation has a right to commence a war against another, unless that nation > has been comitting genocide, or disobeying the norms of the civilized > society by engaging in criminal activity. > > None of the above has been proved against the Chechens! > > Dave Francis wrote in message ... > >Ultimately, history will decide who was right and wrong, but I know one > >thing. As a country, if you are going to have a war, you should go win the > >damn thing. Let all the hand-wringers bitch and cry if they want, but dont > >do as we did in Vietnam, and as the Russians did in Afghanistan. > > > >I know one thing. Here in America, when the Afghan conflict started, we > >thought Russia would just roll over them. They didnt, and it had less to > do > >with how capable the Afghans were than it did with the fact that the > >Russians werent the horrible brutes we thought they would be. I am > >convinced that if the Russians had been as cold-blooded as we thought they > >were, that war would have been over in a few weeks. I dont think Stalin > >would have had a problem, given the same military capacity, in winning that > >war in less than a month. > > > >Dave > > > > > >-- > > > >DavidJ...@USA.net (Email Address) > > > >http://www.angelfire.com/tx2/candyman (Web Page) > > > >503/905-6832 (Fax Number) > > > >"Leo" <x_...@digicon.com> wrote in message > >news:886c6r$rpg$1@mirv.unsw.edu.au... > >> "Brave" Chechens got their arse kicked, PERIOD. > >> > >> > > > > > >
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