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Despite a plea for peace -- but no offer of surrender -- from Chechnya's president Wednesday, Russian forces launched their harshest attack yet on the Chechen capital, Grozny, showering the city with artillery and rockets. Scattered groups of haggard Chechen fighters resisted the onslaught, but many retreated house by house as Russian soldiers claimed block after block of territory. Members of President Dzhokhar Dudayev's government reportedly joined the stream of refugees, though successive Russian air raids failed to dislodge rebels from the surrounding Caucasian mountains. Even a swift victory may be too little, too late to rally international opinion...
...Chechen President Dzhokar Dudayevemerged from nearly two weeks of hiding to call for peace talks with Russia, admitting that his outnumbered forces couldn't win. "There is no other resolution but a peaceful resolution," said Dudayev, looking pale and tired as he spoke to reporters near the capital, Grozny, where shelling resumed after the announcement. "Of course, we cannot physically confront such an empire as Russia." Dudayev's announcement represented a complete about-face after previous demands that Moscow withdraw its troops before a truce. Nevertheless, he demanded negotiations for Chechen autonomy and accused Russian hard-liners of fomenting civil...
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...
...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...