Re: Can someone please explain Chechen Conflict to me?

"MirTopolskiRexPrez" <2472-810@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Roger R. wrote:
> > For a short explanation of the background to the Chechen conflict, try
this
> > article in Slate:
> > http://www.slate.com/id/2106287/
>
> Biased crap. Excerpt: "Dozens of armed men ended up barricading
> themselves in the local hospital [in Budyonnovsk], where the patients,
> including women with their newborns, became their hostages." I wonder
> how this local Ossetian slaughter will be addressed in the second
> actualized edition ...
>

The story of the expulsion of the Chechnyans by Stalin is well do***ented.
It doesn't go into the fact that for the few years Russia left them alone,
Chechnya became the crime center of Southern Russia. It does point out
that
for political reasons Putin ran his political operation on a "Get tough on
(Chechnyan) terrorists" basis and sent the army in as soon as he could.
The
army itself has had severe problems and clearly was not able to handle the
problem in a professional manner, causing more problems than they killed
or
corrected.

Beyond that, if you can show the bias please feel free to do so. Simply
labeling it adds nothing useful to the discussion. For a very brief
description of the background, this was very good. You have offered
nothing
useful.