Word: chechenization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...disappeared. Gongadze had been writing articles critical of Kuchma and his top officials. That same November, Major Mykola Melnychenko, a former Kuchma bodyguard now in the U.S., released a secretly taped recording of a conversation in which Kuchma purportedly tells top aides that Gongadze should be "given" to Chechen guerrillas or otherwise disposed of. The government has repeatedly denied any role in his death. Unlike Gongadze, Mikhailo Kolomiets was not known as a muckraker before he was found hanged in Belarus. Police said he had committed suicide - and no other credible scenario has been established - but Kolomiets' family and friends...
...MOSCOW SIEGE The Hostages Fight Back "I hate the terrorists who took my daughter hostage," says Tatyana Frolova, a notary public whose teenage daughter, Dasha, died in October when Russian commandos stormed Moscow's Theater Center on Dubrovka, where 41 Chechen terrorists held some 850 people hostage. "But those who ordered what they called the 'rescue operation' I hate even more." To knock out the terrorists before the raid, the Russians used a still unidentified gas that also hammered the hostages. At least 127 hostages were killed by the gas at the scene or died later from its aftereffects. "There...
BRITAIN Let Off ... for Now A London court granted bail to Chechen activist Akhmed Zakayev at the start of extradition proceedings demanded by Russia. His case has become a cause célèbre: the actress Vanessa Redgrave guaranteed his €78,000 bail. Zakayev, 43, is an envoy of Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov; Moscow calls him a terrorist. He was briefly detained by British authorities upon his arrival from Denmark, where he spent more than a month in custody. Copenhagen let him go, saying there wasn't enough evidence to support Russia's accusations against...
President Vladimir Putin's use of a sedative gas to end the tragic siege of the Moscow theater was disgraceful and inhuman [WORLD, Nov. 11]. For the sake of the hostages, the Russian authorities should have kept talking to the Chechen rebels, to the point of agreeing to their demands, even if promises would later be broken. Putin should never have decided to take the drastic step of using a potentially lethal gas and risking so many innocent lives. He should not still be in office. I fail to understand how anyone could congratulate Putin for his heartless decision. MARGARITA...
Instead of questioning whether it was legal for the Russian forces to use gas in ending the Moscow theater standoff, people should question the legality of the Chechen terrorists' action. A free world should not care what was used to get rid of a bunch of assassins and save the vast majority of nearly 800 hostages, though some 130 of those hostages were killed. Fighting terrorism requires guts and the use of every possible means. Terrorism is a disease that has to be attacked from every conceivable angle. JOSE LUIS BELMAR Stockholm...