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...election, after successfully leading the Chechen resistance movement from 1994-1996. After his electoral victory, however, he was unable to establish an effective state and the country disintegrated into a Somalia-like state of warlordism. In response to a Chechen warlord’s invasion of Dagestan, and Chechnya??s general state of lawlessness, Russian military forces invaded in 1999. Putin left Russian military forces free to violate internationally accepted norms of warfare, presumably with the hope that ferocious and indiscriminate use of force would cow the impudent Chechens...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski, | Title: Putin's Iron-Fisted Failure | 3/15/2005 | See Source »

...defined as genocide.” Why not? Because the facts on the ground do not support the claim that one ethnic group is systematically wiping out another--the violence in Darfur is a civil war and a separatist insurgency, not genocide. The relevant comparison is Chechnya??s decade-long separatist conflict, not the Holocaust. The comparison to the Holocaust is irresponsible and misleading...

Author: By Alex Captain, | Title: Darfur conflict more complicated than X vs. Y | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

...defined as genocide.” Why not? Because the facts on the ground do not support the claim that one ethnic group is systematically wiping out another--the violence in Darfur is a civil war and a separatist insurgency, not genocide. The relevant comparison is Chechnya??s decade-long separatist conflict, not the Holocaust. The comparison to the Holocaust is irresponsible and misleading...

Author: By Alex Captain, | Title: Darfur conflict more complicated than X vs. Y | 10/24/2004 | See Source »

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