CHECHNYA'S SAVAGE WAR COMES HOME TO MOSCOW
Eric Margolis, Toronto Sun, 11/3/02
http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/margolis_nov3.html
There is no excuse for taking civilians hostage. The Moscow outrage was an
act of terrorism, as Russia insists. But it was a smaller act of terror
within a greater one: Moscow's ongoing war to crush the Chechen
independence movement, an inconvenient cause ignored by the outside world.
The hostage-taking in Moscow was a desperate act by desperate people
without voice or hope.
The Chechen, a Muslim people of the Caucasus Mountains, have fiercely
battled Russian occupation for 300 years. In hidden genocide during the
1940s, Stalin had thousands of Chechen shot and 500,000 (half the
population) sent in cattle cars to frigid Central Asian concentration
camps, where 25% died…
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Chechnya, led by Gen. Jhokar
Dudayev, declared independence. While Moscow allowed other republics
independence, Chechen were denied freedom because of important oil
pipelines that ran through their territory and Kremlin fears other Muslim
peoples of the Caucasus would seek independence…
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