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...wonder why Russian troops are targeting the civilian population of Chechnya [Russia, Jan. 9]. If Chechnya were really part of Russia, why would that nation kill its own ``citizens''? To attack orphanages, women, children or even whole villages is to make this an operation in ethnic cleansing. Oh, poor Chechnya, you have been added to the other victims of the so-called new world order. Before the end of the cold war, the West pretended to be fighting against human-rights violations in the former Soviet Union. It is about time the world says enough is enough...
Yeltsin may be a drunken bully; I've never liked him. But in Chechnya, it seems to me, he's only doing what President Lincoln did when the U.S.'s Southern states tried to secede. The bombing of Grozny reminds me of the severe hardships that civilians had to endure during the Civil War. Many women, children and old folks suffered terribly. Couldn't be helped then; can't be helped now. There's no more reason to let autonomous areas secede from the Russian Federation than there was to let 11 states secede from the Union...
...reason for the fighting in Chechnya is, pure and simple, control of an oil supply line critical to the economy of Russia. Russia relies heavily on its exports of natural resources such as oil and timber to bring in hard currency from the West. It needs these resources if it is to have any hope of rebuilding its economy and maintaining its fragile democracy. The independence issue is a backdrop to what Yeltsin reckons to be the higher national interest of preserving the oil supply and thus preserving any progress made by the new democratic Russia. Isn't Yeltsin merely...
Declaring that "everything can be settled in an hour," the decidedly optimistic Chechen leader Jokhar Dudayev asked Russia to halt its assault on his capital. Even though Chechnya could not hope to win its secessionist war against Moscow, Dudayev warned that continued fighting might well draw neighboring republics into a wider regional conflict. "Every day leads to a deepening crisis," he warned, "not here, but in Russia." The Russian reply: a renewed attack on Grozny that left Chechen fighters desperately trying to hold their ground and the fall of the capital all but certain...
Russian Defense Minister probable casualty of Chechnya disaster...