Polish ruling left leans towards June polls
To: jb6
Personally I don't think you are Christian at all. Or American. But for other FReepers I would like to mention that Maschadov begged Pope to help him stop the war in his motherland and he wanted to imprison Basajev for taking part in Beslan. You should be grateful that Russia is strong enough to convice the world's leaders such freedom-fighters should be Interpol sought criminals. Well done tovarish!
And Mashkidov was responsible.
Yeah he was responsible for defending his motherland's independence against russian oppression. He dared to oppose and successfully fight against neo-USSR-Russia something. He didn't want to be your slave - that is he's guilt. If there are heroe's on the face of the Earth he was one of them. Rest in peace...
88 posted on 03/08/2005 1:27:48 PM PST by twinself [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 80 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
Chechen leader Maskhadov 'killed'
To: twinself
If this is truth then the Russians killed democratically elected president of Chechnya who always condemning terrorism and who many times asked Putin to seat to negotiations. In the same time true terrorists like Basajev planning next Beslan. Truth is that every Chechen who is not liked by Putin is terrorist and many ethnic Russians who are not liked by Putins are “terrorists supporters and sponsors”. That is disgusting and foolish.
6 posted on 03/08/2005 12:35:49 PM PST by Lukasz (Terra Polonia Semper Fidelis!) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
When the Candidate was a Terrorist
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1226486/posts
By turns, Shamil Basayev has been an Islamist terrorist in the murderous mold of Osama bin Laden, a top candidate for the presidency of Chechnya and the Chechen prime minister. Now he is back in his Osama bin Laden mode.
His main opponent was Aslan Maskhadov, the one-time Soviet colonel who had commanded Chechen forces in the war. Both candidates stood for Chechen independence, but Maskhadov was deemed the "moderate".
Basayev ran on his war record. "Candidate Basayev," reported the Philadelphia Inquirer, "has compiled what amounts to a greatest-hits video of his audacious war exploits and turned it into a campaign advertisement. At any hour of the day or night, people in this ruined land can tune to a pro-Basayev television station and watch graphic reruns of the most savage moments in Chechnya's 21-month-long war with Moscow, all starring the controversial rebel. There's Basayev, the daring commander, laying siege to the Russian town of Budennovsk, where civilian hostages were doused with gasoline."
One Basayev supporter told Moscow Times correspondent Gall: "I voted for Basayev because I want to show Russia that they may see him as a terrorist, but we do not."
To the relief of the Russians, Maskhadov beat Basayev, 59.3% to 23.5%. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which sent 72 observers to monitor the elections, raved about its fairness. "It's astonishing that out of death and destruction comes an election which can be termed free and can be termed fair," said then-OSCE Chairman Niels Helveg Peterson of Denmark.
Then Maskhadov named Basayev deputy prime minister. A year later, he made Basayev prime minister and asked him to form a government.