Word: chechen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Israel's quasi-governmental Jewish Agency announced it has nearly completed a mass evacuation of Chechen Jews from Grozny's Jewish ruined quarter and its outskirts. Large numbers of Jewish refugees from the region have reported anti-Semitic persecution in recent years, and Israeli sources say the situation has worsened amid the rebellion...
However, the legitimacy of the Chechen secession still leaves observers puzzled. What would happen if all of the communities Russia has absorbed over the years were to break away? This is an unsettling thought, and one that is no doubt a large part of Russia's motivation. Chechnya does, however, have a strong claim to independence. It is a distinct community ethnically and religiously. Its desire for independence has been long-standing and is deeply embedded, as the ferocious defense of Grozny, the Chechen capital, indicates...
...bottom line is that whatever the particular merits of the Chechen independence movement, force does not provide an answer to Russia's post-imperial pangs. The sooner Russia understands that, the sooner some other method can be arrived...
...legal ramifications of the Chechen war are cloudy, the means the Russians have used leave little room for ambiguity. Their indiscriminate bombings of civilian populations are clear violations of the rules of war and the dictates of decency. It is these humanitarian violations more than anything else that have turned the tide of world opinion against the Russian invasion. Moreover, the Russian people seem to have little stomach for the war, which has been greatly unpopular since its initiation almost a month...
Doubts swirl around Boris Yeltsin as Chechen fighting goes...