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GROZNY, CHECHNYA: A grenade explosion killed three antiwar prostestors and and injured seven when it exploded in a crowd of antiwar protestors camping in front of the bombed out presidential palace in Chechnya. The demonstrators are calling for the withdrawal of Russian troops and the end of the Chechen war, which has killed as many as 30,000 since fighting began last December. Yeltsin ruled out unconditional withdrawal, saying that a "total slaughter" would sweep Chechnya if the Russians left, which is surprising since Grozny was razed, and casualties mounted only after the Russian army invaded. Although Yeltsin realizes...
...help the President position himself for a run at re-election in June. But if he actually launches a major new antiguerrilla offensive, it is very likely to backfire. No matter how the Kremlin portrays it, last week's action was a bloody, humiliating mess. A ragtag group of Chechen gunmen had slipped into Dagestan, seized 3,400 hostages in the town of Kizlyar, and later held off a full-scale assault by thousands of Russian soldiers, including elite special-service units. The Russians prevailed only after a furious bombardment leveled the village where the band of about 300 rebels...
Russians for the most part received news of these events through the filters of official spokesmen and public television. They wanted to believe the operation went well, they had no special affinity for the Dagestani hostages, and they have no sympathy for Chechen rebels. They may even have agreed with Yeltsin when he crowed that "mad dogs must be shot." But now Yeltsin and his hard-line Kremlin advisers are ready to cast aside the tentative peace agreement they worked out with breakaway Chechnya last summer...
...CHECHEN SECESSION...
Reflecting growing frustration with Chechen rebels, who have proved annoyingly tenacious in their fight for secession, Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered the Russian army, police and security forces to attack the village of Pervomaiskoye, where some 300 Chechen rebels held more than 100 civilians hostage. Yeltsin claimed that 82 people were released in the sledgehammer operation, but the village was destroyed and some of the terrorists--reportedly including their leader, Salman Raduyev, related by marriage to Jokhar Dudayev, the chief rebel leader--escaped back into Chechnya...