Word: chechen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RUSSIA'S PACIFIST ATTITUDE TOWARD Bosnia is ironic [COVER STORIES, Sept. 11]. Nine months ago, President Boris Yeltsin mutilated the city of Grozny and reduced it to rubble with artillery, ground troops and air strikes. In fact, Russian leaders repudiated any proposals for negotiations by the Chechen side and dismissed reports of human-rights violations and appalling atrocities committed by Russian troops. Now, when circumstances call for genuine action in the Balkans, Russia wants to deter any progress and is calling for peace talks despite massive evidence of the Bosnian Serbs' failure to keep their promises. NITIN UMAPATHI Bangalore, India...
...family of American aid worker Frederick Cuny said he was executed by Chechen rebels on April 14 after Russian intelligence agents spread rumors that he was an anti-Chechen spy. Cuny, who was awarded a MacArthur "genius" grant last June, was on a humanitarian mission to develop an aid plan for Chechnya. Although a Russian official said his government believed Cuny was still alive, U.S. diplomats in Moscow said they agreed with the family. ISRAELI ATROCITIES ALLEGED...
...Chechen peace agreement takes effect today, TIME's Sally Donnelly reports that both sides are withdrawing from the seven-month war moreout of exhaustionthan in victory. The peace agreement does nothing to addressthe underlying cause of the war: the issue of Chechen independence."Although both sides have made noises about talks, nothing concrete has happened." Nor is an agreement likely soon. Chechen leader Jokhar Duduyev has already denounced the accord, Donnelly notes, while theRussian government fears the political repercussions of Chechen independence."This is really a crucial time for the Russian confederation. There are a quite a few republics -- Tatarstan...
...STEWART His sold-out Moscow concert is canceled due to Chechen crisis...
...days after Russian troops captured Shatoi, the last rebel stronghold in Chechnya, scores of Chechen fighters drove into Russia and terrorized the quiet provincial town of Budyonnovsk, killing as many as 100 people and gathering some 2,000 hostages in the town's three-story hospital. The rebels' commander, Shamil Basayev, rejected an offer of safe passage and said that only a Russian pullback from the breakaway republic would save the hostages. Russian troops twice stormed the hospital on Saturday; but after both attempts had failed, the authorities resumed hard bargaining with the rebels...