09-16-2004, 03:42 AM
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Loser
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Originally Posted by tropple
The people who should be scared are _any_ muslim extremist groups who are known to the FSB. They will soon have a visit from the best in the business
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Also, the people that should be scared are the people that live in the same _province_ as a terrorist. Or even better - the people that live in the same 6000 sq miles as anyone that might in the future _become_ a terrorist!
Hurrah for torture and kidnappings and murder!
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“Over the past one and a half years it’s become the biggest plague,” says Orlov of the kidnappings. Before, Chechen civilians used to be subjected to a different kind of horror, known as zachistki, or “mop-up operations.” As a way of combating guerillas, the military blocked off entire villages and then searched every house, checked everyone for ID, randomly detained people and questioned them. The questioning was more often than not combined with beatings and torture.
Then Russia’s president Vladimir Putin finally responded to mounting international pressure to improve the human rights situation in Chechnya and pointed out that the military must not swoop down on the entire population, but, rather, go after specific targets. In theory, that makes sense. But in Chechnya, targeted work has turned into targeted kidnappings. “People come in armored vehicles without license plates and take people away. Like in Stalin’s times,” Orlov says.
Memorial estimates that approximately 3,000 people had vanished in Chechnya during the four years from 1999 to 2003. Given Chechnya’s estimated population of 700,000, that works out to approximately 43 disappearances per every 10,000 people. During the height of Stalinist terror, people were plucked from their beds at night and taken away, never to be seen again; the figures for those years are, 44 disappearances per every 10,000 people. Back in those days, slander or hearsay information from a malevolent neighbor or co-worker was often enough to doom someone.
Which is exactly what’s happening in Chechnya — people are beginning to inform on each other as a way of personal revenge or sometimes for “commercial” reasons — for instance, if a member of a well-off family is taken away, ransom can be demanded. Over the past years, says Orlov, he’s seeing a hereto unknown feeling paralyze Chechen villagers: fear. “It used to be that fear was considered beneath Chechens, that they must be courageous and open.” And now, “Chechens are afraid of Chechens. Neighbors are afraid of neighbors.”
http://www.mosnews.com/feature/2004/09/01/terror.shtml
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