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...nihilism. I see my work as part of a greater movement to reclaim law and politics for the people. We took on despots in the eighteenth century and robber barons in the nineteenth. Now in the twentieth and into the twenty-first, we are called to rebel against another great, illegitimate concentration of power--the corporation...
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA: A truck packed with explosives drove into Sri Lanka's central bank today, killing at least 53 people and wounding 1,400. Sri Lankan authorities are blaming Tamil Tiger rebels for the explosion, which caused the bank and several other buildings to burst into flames. The fires blazed for most of the day, making rescue attempts difficult. If it was a rebel attack, it was one of the worst in their 12-year campaign for an independent homeland. Nearly 40,000 people have been killed in the fighting. The worst attack occurred in October 1994, when...
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...