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| Caucasus |
| ''All Chechens Are Hostages of Russian Military'' |
| 2002-10-24 |
| Chechnyaâs representative for Europe said Thursday, October 24, that the hostage-takers who have taken several hundred people hostage in a Moscow theater, who are not part of the Chechen army, were trying to draw world attention to the tragedy in Chechnya, where all Chechens are hostages of the Russian military. So they take innocent civilians, just out to see a show, hostage and pack explosives around them? That makes sense. Not a lot of sense, but sense... Aslambek Kadiyev said that it was âa desperate action of Chechens who are trying to draw international attention to the tragedy in Chechnya where all Chechen people are all hostages of the Russian military campaign.â Kadiyev said the hostage-takers were not part of the Chechen army and that Chechen President How very pious of him... He also said he fears the Russian military will launch an assault on the Moscow theater where hundreds of people were being held hostage by Chechen rebels, resulting in a bloodbath. âWe know from our previous experience when Russian troops take military action, they donât care about the loss of civilians and we are afraid that this time also the civilians can be brought as a sacrifice to the military cause,â said Aslambek Kadiyev in a BBC interview. Mmmm... I'd say more like a sacrifice to the Chechen cause. It wasn't the military who took them hostage, and it's not the military who can spring them any time they want... âWe would like the situation to be solved peacefully but... in the past, Russia didn't show any mercy against civilians. Thousands of civilians are killed in Chechnya and thousands are held hostages and disappear,â he said. If they act like the guys holding the hostages in Moscow, I think we can all see why that happens... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |