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BORIS YELTSIN OBLITERATED A VILLAGE last week and called it a victory. A leading Moscow newspaper described the Russian army's running battle with Chechen rebels as "10 days of pain, impotence and shame." But Yeltsin, with a flourish of newspeak reminiscent of Soviet days, simply declared himself a winner. His troops, he claimed at a news conference in the Kremlin, killed 153 Chechens, captured 28, and freed 82 hostages after besieging Pervomaiskoye, a hamlet in far-off Dagestan. "We have taught Dudayev a sound lesson," Yeltsin said, referring to Chechen separatist leader Jokhar Dudayev. Now, Yeltsin threatened, Russia will...
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...
...Thirteen months of war there has cost 30,000 lives, left 600,000 homeless and deeply undermined the public's confidence in both its politicians and its military leadership. With the new hostage crisis came television images of frightened, exhausted women and children peering from the shattered windows of rebel buses, all of which stoked Russians' anger about the war--and Yeltsin's inability to end it. The main point of his televised scolding of the generals was to deflect that discontent toward the uniformed military leaders. "The power structures, the ministries, the government and the Security Council have drawn...
Southern apologists who lobby for the construction of a memorial to the rebel dead emphasize that, for the average southern soldier; going to war had very little to do with the momentous issues of slavery or union. Rather, it was an expression of loyalty to his state, community and family, all of which he believed to be threatened. Therefore, goes the argument, why not memorialize the Southern dead? After all, didn't they fight as heroically, if not more so, for what they believed in than those in the Union army...
PERVOMAYSKAYA, DAGESTAN: Russian troops scoured the black and smoking ruins of Pervomayskaya, looking for any Chechen rebels who might have survived Thursday's attack on the town. By Russian President Boris Yeltsin's official body count, 137 of the 320 rebels remain unaccounted for. It's believed that many of them escaped through Russian lines during fierce fighting Thursday as hundreds of Chechens crossed into Dagestan in a daring raid to free the trapped rebels. Among those thought to have escaped: Salman Raduyev, commander of the rebel group. Just how many hostages were killed in the assault, and by whom...