Following Obama’s Kind Words, Putin’s Slaughter of Dissidents Continues

Pajamas Media ^ | July 15 | Kim Zigfeld

[AJKauf]

I would argue that the Kremlin’s biggest failure in the Caucasus is one it doesn’t even recognize as a problem — namely the total inability to prosecute its own war crimes.

Human Rights Watch has just condemned Russia’s policy of allowing its military forces to set fire to civilian homes in retaliation for acts of separatist violence, placing the lives of innocent children at risk. Only truly epic failure would cause a regime that claims U.N. Security Council membership to authorize polices this barbaric.

Indeed, Russia has been repeatedly convicted for state-sponsored murder in the European Court for Human Rights, yet no serious attempt has been made by the Kremlin to affect reforms.

The response of the Putin regime has been singular: vest its handpicked strongman in the region, Chechen ruler Ramzan Kadyrov, with unlimited power to crack down on the separatists. Recently, the horrific consequences of this decision became bone-chillingly clear: Kadyrov has begun assassinating his enemies in civil society throughout the region and even abroad.

The most recent victim was by far the most appalling — prize-winning journalist Natalia Estemirova.

Kidnapped in Grozny on Wednesday, she was found hours later shot in the head and dumped at the roadside in Ingushetia...In other words, its possible Mr. Obama has blood on his hands.....

[mikelets456]

Hey Zero, make sure you take notes! Oh silly me, you have this memorized...

[FormerACLUmember]

Following Obama’s Kind Words, Putin’s Slaughter of Dissidents Continues

Corrected title: BECAUSE OF Obama’s Kind Words, Putin’s Slaughter of Dissidents Continues

[EagleUSA]

President Alinsky idolizes dictatorship.

[MrB]

Slaughtering dissidents is just one of those leftist things.

Lefties will be lefties, what can you do?

[Tailgunner Joe]

The Chekist Putin has put a jihadist terrorist in charge of Chechnya! Death to islamo-fascist Russia!

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[jessduntno]

Something Obama and Republicans have in common; they think if they are “nice” they will win...BORK Sotomayor and BORK her hard, you dimwits...

[woollyone]

"Introduction to the Abridgment

If it were possible for any nation to fathom another people's bitter experience through a book, how much easier its future fate would become and how many calamities and mistakes it could avoid. But it is very difficult. There always is this fallacious belief: “It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible.”

Alas, the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth.

" partial excerpt from GULAG ARCHIPELIGO

[JCG]

In Dagestan, in Ingushetia, and in Chechnya, separatist rebels are at open war with the state, killing police officers by the score and even striking down high-ranking public officials with ease. Experts refer to large parts of the region as “battlefields” with more than 300 deaths, including at least 60 civilians so far this year. The Kremlin has ignored issues of economic development in the region, allowing profound racial and social divides to emerge.

Warning: propagandist at work!. When they say "separatist rebels" and blame "racial and social divides" for Chechnya's problems without ever mentioning the M-word you know you're being fed a line.

Natalia Estemirova may have been a wonderful lady who did wonderful work but, just as likely, she may have been a meddler who simply crossed the wrong people. In this case it's really hard to pull the right card out of the deck. There's just as much a chance that she was off'd by Muslims as by Russians. (Ingushetia and Chechnya are almost 100% Sunni Muslim.)

I don't think anyone has the absolute truth on this, I sure don't -- and that's why I'm saying proceed with caution.

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