Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 03:58:58 -0400 From: "pms" <laflame at aaahawk.com> Subject: Re: RE:The anti-Imperialism of fools
Northern Chechnya produces a small amount of oil. Presumably some of that money makws its way to the radicals in the south.
The radicals' funding comes from Arab militants (this seems to have dried up somewhat recently), the heroin trade, kidnapping and the slave trade (both of the last two have also dropped since 1999, when the Russians came in and destroyed the Grozny slave market).
Chris Doss The Russia Journal ---------------------------- So. Where does their funding come from? - ----- Original Message ----- From: ChrisD(RJ) <chrisd at russiajournal.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 2:51 AM Subject: RE:The anti-Imperialism of fools
>
> Wojtek writes:
>
> This, btw, also applies to Chechnya, Basque, Tibet, Kashmir, Kosovo and
> similar nationalist-separatist movements.
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>
> I write:
>
> I gotta say I'm a hell of a lot more sympathetic to your position than I
> would have been before I moved to the FSU. What benefits did Armenia,
> Georgia, Uzbekistan, etc. get from independence? Civil wars, dictatorship
> and poverty. Not to mention Chechnya, which used to manufacture high-tech
> goods for the USSR, and spent its period of independence devolving into a
> hellish gangster state. My support for Chechen separatism is zero. Just
what
> the world needs, a (quasi-)state based on Shuriah law with an economy
based
> on kidnapping, drug running, banditry and the slave trade. Maskhadov,
> Dudayev etc. have done nothing for the Chechens other than help make their
> lives a living hell.
>
> Chris Doss
> The Russia Journal