Word: chechen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...battles raged through the streets of the southern Russian cityof Budyonnovsk, 120 miles north of Chechnya, as an armed convoy of nearly 100 heavily armed gunmen believed to be Chechen rebels invaded the town. As the rebels stormed the police station, city hall and government offices, 15 people were killed and 21 others were wounded. The gunmen seized as many as 300 hostages, most of them civilians, and threatened to kill them if Russia did not immediatelycease military operations in Chechnya. As night fell, Russian officials say the attackers herded their captives into buses and began to retreat towards Chechnya...
Farkhad Kerimov, a freelance television cameraman covering the war in Chechnya for the Associated Press, has been confirmed dead near Grozny. Shot to death a week ago by unidentified assailants, 27 miles south of the Chechen capital, Kerimov was quickly buried by local residents. His remains were identified today by his brother. Kerimov, a native of Azerbaijan, had covered the Chechen conflict for AP since last December...
...population of Wyoming Valley sought to secede from Pennsylvania and form its own state. The executive council answered that challenge with orders to a unit of the state's militia to arrest their leader. We found ourselves in a similar situation under different circumstances in different times. [Chechen rebel leader Jokhar] Dudayev had launched an armed rebellion with the goal of destroying the integrity of the Russian Federation. Hence coercion by the state was used...
Yeltsin: You should not forget that the Chechen people also fought during World War II. Almost every family has someone who was killed. So Victory Day is still a holiday for them, although perhaps they are celebrating with tears in their eyes. If certain bandits choose to break our agreement, we'll manage to deal with them. The current situation is much better. It has calmed down, and we are witnessing a renewal in the area. Buildings and communication lines are being restored, trade is resuming, and administrative bodies are functioning. We have a Chechen government, assisted by the federal...
Before he boarded Air Force One, Clinton said he was "very deeply disturbed" over reports thatRussian soldiershad slaughtered more than 100 women, children and elderly civilians in a Chechen village last month. The Russian Parliament is now investigating the events of Apr. 7-10, when soldiers reportedly stormed into Samashki, 20 miles west of Grozny, torching buildings, tossing grenades into the basements where frightened residents were hiding, and shooting unarmed residents at random. "TheRussian army was thrown into this combatfor which they were not prepared," says TIME Moscow correspondent Terence Nelan. "The soldiers are angry and frustrated...