Chechnya's Conflict

The war in Chechnya might officially be over, but rebels are still prepared to die for their beliefs.

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The First Chechen War, also known as the War in Chechnya, was a conflict between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, fought from December 1994 to August 1996. After the initial campaign of 1994–1995, culminating in the devastating Battle of Grozny, Russian federal forces attempted to seize control of the mountainous area of Chechnya but were set back by Chechen guerrilla warfare and raids on the flatlands in spite of Russia's overwhelming manpower, weaponry, and air support. The resulting widespread demoralization of federal forces, and the almost universal opposition of the Russian public to the conflict, led Boris Yeltsin's government to declare a ceasefire in 1996 and sign a peace treaty a year later. The official figure for Russian military death toll is 5,500, while most estimates put the number between 3,500 and 7,500, or even as high as 14,000.[6] Although there are no accurate figures for the number of Chechen militants killed, various estimates put the number at about 3,000 to over 15,000 deaths. Various figures estimate the number of civilian deaths at between 30,000 and 100,000 killed and possibly over 200,000 injured, while more than 500,000 people were displaced by the conflict, which left cities and villages across the republic in ruins.[7]

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The Second Chechen War, in a later phase better known as the War in the North Caucasus,[16] was launched by the Russian Federation starting August 26, 1999, in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade (IIPB).

On 1 October Russian troops entered Chechnya.[17][18] The campaign ended the de facto independence of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and restored Russian federal control over the territory. Although it is regarded by many as an internal conflict within the Russian Federation, the war attracted a large number of foreign fighters.

During the initial campaign, Russian military and pro-Russian Chechen paramilitary forces faced Chechen separatists in open combat, and seized the Chechen capital Grozny after a winter siege that lasted from late 1999 to the following February 2000. Russia established direct rule of Chechnya in May 2000 and after the full-scale offensive, Chechen militant resistance throughout the North Caucasus region continued to inflict heavy Russian casualties and challenge Russian political control over Chechnya for several more years. Some Chechen separatists also carried out terrorist attacks against civilians in Russia. These terrorist attacks, as well as widespread human rights violations by Russian and separatist forces, drew international condemnation.

As of 2009, Russia has severely disabled the Chechen separatist movement and large-scale fighting has ceased. Russian army and interior ministry troops no longer occupy the streets. The once leveled city of Grozny has recently undergone massive reconstruction efforts and much of the city and surrounding areas have been rebuilt at a quick pace. However sporadic violence still exists throughout the North Caucasus; occasional bombings and ambushes targeting federal troops and forces of the regional governments in the area still occur.[19][20]

On 16 April 2009, the counter-terrorism operation in Chechnya was officially ended.[1] As the main bulk of the army was withdrawn, the burden of dealing with the ongoing low-level insurgency mainly fell on the shoulders of the local police force. Three months later, the exiled leader of the separatist government, Akhmed Zakayev, called for a halt to armed resistance against the Chechen police force starting on August 1, and said he hoped that "starting with this day Chechens will never shoot at each other".[21]

The exact death toll from this conflict is unknown. Unofficial estimates range from 25,000 to 50,000 dead or missing, mostly civilians in Chechnya. Russian casualties are over 5,200 (official Russian casualty figures)[22] and are about 11,000 according to the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers.[23]

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Journalist killed over the conflict in Chechnya

Journalist killed over the crisis in Chechnya. Chechnya one of the Caucasus nations, which declared independence from Russia. Russia responded with a massive invasion and there been no true peace there.

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Chechnya without Chechens

Both the Russian communists (the founder of Communism, Karl Marx including the first president after Russian Revolution, and later rulers such as Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, and Khrushchev, were all Jewish) and their communist brothers, otherwise known as Zionist Jews (first president of Israel, Chaim Weizmann, was a Russian communist Jew), have one thing in common
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“I have been a combat soldier and have covered twelve high intensity wars from the front, but I have never seen anything that equals the heroism and bounless courage of the Chechen Mujahideen, who have no formal military training, have no heavy weapons and are even short of anti-tank rockets. There is almost no medicine or morphine for their wounded and no shelter from massive Russian bombardment which includes banned fuel air explosives, toxic gas and napalm. If taken alive by Russian they will be tortured first and then executed,” - Eric Margolis, a Canadian columnist and broadcaster.

Both the Russian communists (the founder of Communism, Karl Marx including the first president after Russian Revolution, and later rulers such as Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, and Khrushchev, were all Jewish) and their communist brothers, otherwise known as Zionist Jews (first president of Israel, Chaim Weizmann, was a Russian communist Jew), have one thing in common - They both want their occupied countries (Chechnya and Palestine) without the Native people.

Russia has three major reasons to carry-out the genocide of Chechen Muslims. First is the region has significant amount of oil and gas reserves. As part of USSR - Chechnya used to supply the entire Russian needs of oil and gas. Second is that if Chechnya, one of its 19 autonomous republics, is allowed to separate from Russia - it would encourage the people of other republics to follow Chechnya’s lead - and could result Moscow losing 25% of its current ‘holdings’. Third, and Moscow’s real fear - is establishment of an Islamic State on its borders. It was the same fear which gave the West the reasons to carry-out Muslim Holocaust in both Bosnia and Kosova.

Chechen have more than 270 year history of resistance against the Russian imperialism. Chechen history is full of mass genocides carried out in the the name of Christianity and imperialism - in the 18th, 19th and the 20th century, the last one when Jewish-communist Stalin had tens of thousands of Chechen shot and the remainder of Chechen people deported to Siberian concentration camps - only allowed to return to their homeland in 1957.

Russian intelligence services KGB - like their counterparts in the US (CIA) and Israel (Mossad) are well-known for conducting terrorism and then blaming on Muslims. For example, former KGB colonel Alexander Litvinenko in his book ‘Blowing up Russia: Terror from Within’ alleges that it was KGB successor, the Federal Security Service (FSB) which coordinated the 1999 apartment block bombing in Russia that killed more than 300 people.

After the demise of USSR being one of world’s superpower in 1991 as result of bloody nose the Red Army received in Afghanistan - the parliament of autonomous republic of Russian Federation - representing 1.5 million Chechen Muslims - voted to declare Chechnya’s independence under the leadership of Russia’s Air Force hero, Gen. Dzhokhar Dudayev. In late 1994 Russian forces invaded and occupied the capital after killing over 100,000 civilians. In 1996, Dzhokhar Dudayev was martyred by a Russian missile. Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev succeeded him as president. The Russian army withrew, practically accepting defeat. In 1997, Aslan Mashkhadov, chief of Chechem Army was elected president of Republic of Ichkeria. In 1999, Russian army invaded Chechnya again. In 2003, an election was held under Russian occupation and Akhmad Kadyrov was declared ‘elected president’ by Moscow. Kadyrov was assassinated in 2004 and Moscow replaced him by Alu Alkhanov who resigned in 2007 - and was replace by Kadyrov’s son Ramzan Kadyro.

Chechen are practically fighting their Jihad without any help from the 57 Muslim nation states. Islamic Iran which has supported Bosnian Muslims during Serb-Croat invasion - and is now supporting HAMAs and Hizb’Allah against Israeli fascism - has not extended helping hand to Chechen Muslims due to its national interests in having friendly relations with Russia.

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