Chechen crisis (from LM 127)

Chris Burford cburford at gn.apc.org
Mon Dec 20 14:13:57 PST 1999


At 11:15 20/12/99 +0200, you wrote:


> Behind the Chechen crisis by Tracey Brown

What crisis?

The Russian military intend to crush the Chechens. The only thing they are prepared to negotiate about is surrender. There is no crisis.


> Yeltsin was
>able to galvanise a degree of popular support for renewed military action
>in Chechnya, following the bomb explosions earlier this year in Moscow
>which he attributed to Chechen terrorists.

Convenient weren't they?

Why are they not continuing?

Chris Burford

London



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