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Re: Beslan



By the by, more people fled Chechnya from 1996-1999
than during the First Chechen War. I wonder who it was
they must have been running from. Hey, I don't know,
maybe it was from these bandits, after they
established the death penalty for adultery, kicked out
all the human rights and aid organizations (kicked out
= killed) and made kidnapping into the republic's No.
1 source of income. Just a suggestion.

>
> A little while ago, while thinking about the fact
> that
> Chechens were a minority in this group of gunmen (as
> usual), a strange thought came to my head. I know
> it's
> farfetched, but do you think it might just barely be
> possible that these were some of the foreign
> "bandits"
> Putin was using as a "pretext" for the war, you
> know,
> the way the Soviet Union used the German "invasion"
> as
> a "pretext" for declaring its imperialist aggression
> against the Nazis?
>
>
>
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