Word: chechen
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...alleged Aug. 23 air raid on Georgian territory. It "has broken all limits," Georgia's President said at the funeral of Guram Otiashvili, supposedly killed in the raid on Matani village. Shevardnadze's trip to the Gorge followed his decision to send 1,000 troops to flush out the Chechen separatists Russia says are hiding there. Shevardnadze spurned Russia's suggestion of a joint operation against the Chechens: "We will solve our problems on our own, and the Pankisi Gorge will become one of the country's exemplary and stable regions." MEANWHILE The Axman Cometh Guests at a British banker...
...DETAINED. HIROSHI MINAMI, 24, a former officer in the Japanese Self-Defense Force; for joining Chechen rebels in their insurrection against Russia; by security authorities in Georgia. Minami, a convert to Islam, was apprehended as he tried to enter Georgia with a group of Chechen guerrillas...
...RUSSIA Chechen Ambush Russian troops and pro-Russian Chechen military police were on high alert throughout Chechnya for the sixth anniversary of Chechen rebels' capture of Grozny during the first Chechen war - and for good reason. Ten members of the Chechen military police were killed and at least eight injured when their vehicle hit a radio-controlled landmine in the southern Shatoi region...
...bombed the mountains on the border with Chechnya, Georgian officials claimed. Film from the Pankisi Gorge, a valley in the northern Caucasus Mountains, showed large craters on a hillside and dead sheep, said to have been killed in the strike. Russia denied the allegations but accused Georgia of sheltering Chechen terrorists. The U.S., worried that Pankisi could harbor al-Qaeda activists, has sent soldiers to Georgia to train antiterrorism forces...
...humankind to the brink of extinction. So plan accordingly. RUSSIA Lost Young Men The Helsinki Federation, an international human-rights organization, accused the Russian military of a campaign of executions in Chechnya aimed at reducing the breakaway republic's male population. The Federation alleged that around 50 to 80 Chechen men are abducted and murdered each month during sweep-and-search operations by Russian special forces. SUDAN Peace at Last? Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir and rebel leader John Garang met for the first time, following the signing of a preliminary peace deal by the Sudanese government and the opposition...