Originally posted by Sprayber
Weither or not the chechens deserve independence isn't important. A significant portion seems to want it. The question becomes how much pain Russia is willing to endure and what measures they are willing to implement to keep Chechnyia apart of the Russian Federation. Apparently some Chechens are willing to comment terrible acts of violence against the weakest members of Russian soceity.
What is Russia willing to endure? What is Russia willing to do. The chechens have made it pretty clear that they are willing to do.
Weither or not the chechens deserve independence isn't important. A significant portion seems to want it. The question becomes how much pain Russia is willing to endure and what measures they are willing to implement to keep Chechnyia apart of the Russian Federation. Apparently some Chechens are willing to comment terrible acts of violence against the weakest members of Russian soceity.
What is Russia willing to endure? What is Russia willing to do. The chechens have made it pretty clear that they are willing to do.
Over 90% of population of Chechnya came to elections and bulk of them voted "yes" for new constitution of the republic which says that Chechnya is autonomus republic of Russian Federation. Those people are tired of war and they do not want to live in Taliban-type state again.
If you think that those 32 motherf*ckers who captured school in Beslan and slaughtered children there represent entire Chechen people, that they did it for independence of Chechnya, that by commiting such acts, they fight for freedom of Chechnya, THEN how do you explain, that this gang consisted of "peoples" of ten nationalities, that 1/3 of this gang were Arabs and Chechens weren't absolute majority of this group?
All those Arabs, Ossetins, Ingushes, Kazakhs, Uzbecs, etc did this becuase they are in fact Chechens who fight for freedom of their country, OR perhaps because they are part of worldwide religious extremist group which declared Jihad versus unfaithfull heretics (the rest of civilized world)?
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