The Conflict In Chechnya
"Slave, who doesn't try to escape slavery - deserves double slavery"
Imam Shamil and Naiby - The legendary Chechen freedom fighter.
On August 22, 1991, thousands of people gathered in the main square of Grozny, the capital city of the Russian Republic of Chechnya, after hearing the news of the attempted coup in Moscow against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The jubilant Chechens viewed this as their Independence Day. At the end of the summer of 1991, Dzokhar Dudayev led a movement that expelled the conservative Communist establishment in Grozny. Dudayev's strongly nationalistic group formed a National Guard, declared the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR) ...
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settled "not by applying emergency measures but by political means." (Herze, P. B., The Chechens: Perennial Rebels of the Caucus.) The parliament's efforts to secure the peace in Chechnya were unsuccessful. Dudayev ordered general mobilization to defend Chechnya against a Russian invasion. "On November 29 Russian jets bombed Grozny's airport, and Yeltsin issued an ultimatum giving Chechens 48 hours to lay down arms." (Herze, P. B., The Chechens: Perennial Rebels of the Caucus.) Consequently, the Chechens refused the notion, and a full-scale invasion of Chechnya by Russian forces began in December. Moscow was repeating the infamous tactics of "Marshall Yermolov, the brutal, 18th century Russian conqueror of the Caucasus, who proclaimed, "I desire that the terror of my name should guard our frontiers more potently than chains or fortresses, that my word should be for the natives a law more inevitable than death." (Herze, P. B., The Chechens: Perennial Rebels of the Caucus.) As the ...
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which were of great strategic importance to Russia since the beginning of the conflict. The treaty, however, secured only temporary negative peace in the region. During the period of diplomatic negotiations and peace talks, the negative peace coexisted with structural violence - Russia continued to repress and exploit, the Chechens bred rebellions.
In July and August of 1999, the mysterious blasts leveled several apartment houses in Moscow and Rostov, killing almost 300 people. Even though the culprits were never found and the militants had denied their involvement, the Russian government blamed the rebels. "Some analysts suggested that the explosions were set off by renegade ...
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