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> Subject: [lbo-talk] Gorbachev: Bringing troops into Chechnya in 1994
> wasinadequate measure
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> Dec 11 2004 12:41PM
> Bringing troops into Chechnya in 1994 was inadequate
> measure - Gorbachev
> MOSCOW. Dec 11 (Interfax) - The problems that existed
> in Chechnya ten years ago did not call for the use of
> military force, said former Soviet president Mikhail
> Gorbachev.
>
> "Certainly, what was going on in Chechnya at that time
> was alarming. But those problems were not unsolvable,
> and the bringing of troops into that republic was an
> absolutely inadequate measure. That was a great and
> tragic mistake, which led to the second military
> campaign and later to a terrorist war. Thousands of
> people were killed, Chechnya has suffered catastrophic
> devastation, but the situation there still remains
> unsettled," Gorbachev said in an interview with
> Interfax.
>
> The former Soviet leader also suggested that it would
> make sense today to consider granting more autonomy to
> Chechnya within the Russian Federation. He said he
> completely supports "Vladimir Putin's efforts to
> redirect the settlement of the Chechen conflict onto a
> political path."
>
> On December 11, 1994, then Russian president Boris
> Yeltsin signed a decree on measures to settle the
> situation in Chechnya, which were in fact a plan of a
> military operation.
>
> Head of the Memorial human rights center Oleg Orlov
> described as "very distressing" the implications of
> the December 1994 decision to launch a military
> operation in Chechnya for the current humanitarian
> situation in that region.
>
> "The situation surrounding the observance of human
> rights in Chechnya is extremely bad, and,
> unfortunately, terrorism has not been defeated. You
> can't say that all terrorist attacks are related to
> Chechnya, but on the whole, the continued war in
> Chechnya does fuel this phenomenon," Orlov said.
>
> It is necessary to involve various forces in Chechen
> society to advance a settlement in that republic,
> Orlov said.
>
> Chairman of the Chechen State Council Taus Dzhabrailov
> called for more active efforts in combating terrorist
> and other illegal armed groups not only in Chechnya
> but also in other regions where they commit crimes
> from time to time.
>
> Dzhabrailov claimed in a recent interview with
> Interfax that, according to his information, most
> members of illegal armed groups acting in Chechnya are
> residents of the neighboring North Caucasus regions,
> CIS countries, and even non-CIS nations.
>
> "They have access to the most advanced weapons and
> don't experience shortage of explosives. They have
> used tonnes of explosives on a number of occasions,
> but the nation has never been told about the source
> from which these explosives have arrived, because
> Chechnya does not produce explosives itself," he said.
>
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