Russia vows to destroy Chechen rebels (Russia Alert - They are bloody mad can you blame them)

Reuters UK ^ | Sun 8 February, 2004 21:48 | By Mark Trevelyan, Security Correspondent

[zinochka]

Will the 10,000 blood sacrifice on high holy day commense again?

Even if there actually was such a thing as "Warriors of Aztlan" it probably would not. No one believes in sacrificed hearts to Tezcatlipoca any more. Because it is'nt the 15th century any more in Mexico.


Sick pagan religion, only Islam is bloodier

That's because it is still the 15th century for Wahhabist Islam!

[RussianConservative]

That's because it is still the 15th century for Wahhabist Islam!

I am sorry but must disagree with you...it's the 7th Century they stuck in.

[david_the_positive]

I dunno, Chechnya was invaded by the Russian Empire. Perhaps if they got out of there earlier the slamic dimension may not have entered in. Right now, the Russians are foreigners rulign over Chechnya. This isn't any different from the Russians ruling over the Baltic states. The Chechens aren't Russian.

Dear Chronos.

i try to observe rather than raspond, but your chechen story seems to echo so many bad memories that i want to stop on it for a minute.

Do you know the saying: "if you goto a zoo and see a cage labeled tiger and you see an elephant in it - do not believe your eyes"

In Chechnya many people lived through a war, and got to test the idea that a "chechen government" is better than "russian occupation".

Our media, in my opinion went to Chechnya with a preconceived story, as opposed to a see and tell approach.

There was a Russian Duma study that said that in Grozny rallies, where supporters dropped notes into a basket were later called nationwide elections.
Is this true?
Gosduma, a mouthpiece like US congress, said it was. If reporters were in Chechnya to do more than put a Grozny postal stamp on their london/ny/moscow story perhaps they would of checked it and reported to us whether its true or not.

If you believe the reporters covering chechnyan story you may of missed that chechen forces were fighting on both sides of the conflict. Let alone that there was a civil war before Russian soldiers went in Christmas Day 1994.

Chechen militants were mutilating Russian prisoners of war, of which there is video and photo proof. Did it get any coverage? What about the stories of "Russian ethnic cleansing." The latter stories went to press without any sort of checks apparently, as those that were checked were found to be hoaxes or too ambiguous to tell.

I encourage you to refer me to a well documented story of russian cleansing.

[Cronos]

Dear David,

My post merely said that the Chechens were invaded by the Russian Empire (the Tsarist Empire), in the same way that they conquered the Baltic states. That was the Empire building period and conquest happened.

My next point was that the Chechens are not ethnically Russian and that's true enough.

I did not in any way accuse or even suggest that the Russians carried out any form of "cleansing".

[david_the_positive]

Hi Cronos.

You are right on my reply - to a large part it was responding to my view of our media, and not your points.

-David