Video about Chechen - Russian war

With the impending collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, an independence movement, initially known as the Chechen National Congress was formed. This movement was ultimately opposed by Boris Yeltsin's Russian Federation, which argued:

(1) Chechnya had not been an independent entity within the Soviet Union – as the Baltic, Central Asian, and other Caucasian States had – but was a part of the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic and hence did not have a right under the Soviet constitution to secede;

(2) Other ethnic groups inside Russia, such as the Tatars, would join the Chechens and secede from the Russian Federation if they were granted that right; and

(3) Chechnya was at a major chokepoint in the oil-infrastructure of the country and hence would hurt the country's economy and control of oil resources.

In the ensuing decade, the territory has been locked in an ongoing struggle between various factions, usually fighting unconventionally and the forgoing position as held by the several successive Russian governments through the current administration. Various demographic factors including religious factors with charges and actions characteristic of Islamic terrorism have continued to keep the area in a near constant state of war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechnya#Russia.27s_recent_role_in_Chechnya

This is how a war for independence can get called a 'terrorist' activity.

Great post!

One of the appalling consequences of this bullshit war on 'terror' is the way that Bush and Blair have given their full support to Putin to inflict terror and genocide on the people of Chechnya. The UN Charter, and Article 1 in both the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), guarantee the right of self-determination to ALL peoples.

"This is how a war for independence can get called 'terrorist' activity" - just like in Palestine!

http://www.freechechnya.org/

This is how, when offered a way to take care of their families with some hoopla and medals, the brokers of the lives of men, coerce otherwise reasonable ones, to defy their sensibilities from birthright, to sell out and settle for less.

Hence the masks-
......leave it to the women, perhaps.....a check valve..

Again fellas, regional issues, controlled by the powerfull few, be they entire insane nations, or a group of the ten most influential cabals......all the same, with regard to the masses....asses....us

Guys, this is not about a war on terror. This war was raging long before there were any such war on terror. In the 1830s the Autonomous Soviet Republic of Chechnya began seeking independence. You have to understand that Russia is Huge compared to a place the size of Chechnya. Ill equate it size to Russia is to Chechnya as Texas is to Rhode Island. I wrote a paper on Russian historical time line, and i found many disturbing things. Chechens actually won independence for a while in which the name of the capital changed to Djohar. I have a power point presentation on a bit of this. I could branch off into this subject, but my teacher insisted i did not.

You must understand the region, Northern Caucus Mountains, there is oil there but that doesnt matter. The truth of the matter is Chechnya wants independence, and Russia does not want to give it. Whether or not there is oil, gold, nothing there Russia does not what to give independence. These guys have been at it for so long they probably do not no the truth of why they are fighting, but they do no that the enemy they face now are the same ones that our United States Military is fighting in Iraq now. I saw a recent documentary, i believe on the sift, that showed majority of the Zealots they are fighting over there are tried and true Chechen warriors.

So we went from a soviet war, to a Russian federation war, to a joint war on terrorism. Either way there is nothing that we the Americans can do, because those poor civilians think that the Round Eyed, big nose English speaking American will come and help them, and yes some of us will. But no national movement can be done because we wage our own stupid war that mirrors the Chechen war, only ours is in Iraq. We could come help them yes, but as soon as we do the Zealots will begin to kill us the same way they are in Iraq.


The only way for any thing to happen is to for the masses to stand!- choggie.

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