Chechens lay $20 mn bounty on Putin’s head
Reuters
Moscow, September 9
Chechen rebels, in a swift reply to a Russian bounty offer for their leaders, have promised to give $20 million (11 million pounds) to anyone helping them to capture President Vladimir Putin.
On Wednesday the government offered $10 million for information that would help track down the two main Chechen leaders, Aslan Maskhadov and Shamil Basayev.
“We offer an award of $20 million to countries, organisations or individuals who give the Chechen republic active help in detaining the war criminal Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin,” said a statement on rebel Web sites on Thursday.
It was signed by “the anti-terrorist centre of the Chechen Republic,” part of Maskhadov’s unrecognised government.
The statement accuses Putin of launching war against Chechnya and of being responsible for the school siege in the town of Beslan last week, when at least 326 people died in a battle as Russian forces moved in to free the 1,000 hostages.
“Putin is blamed for … many planned actions to discredit the lawful national liberation struggle of the Chechen people against foreign aggression, including the organisation of the bloody war against children and adults in Beslan,” it said.
Where are they going to get that kind of money? Grab another 1000 children or so and hold them hostage for ransom? If they had $20 million to spend they should put it in a political/grass roots campaign to promote their self rule through peaceful means. Or at least an educational/religous program that would teach them the moral and practical implications of killing children to promote policy.
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If they had $20 million to spend they should put it in a political/grass roots campaign to promote their self rule through peaceful means. Or at least an educational/religous program that would teach them the moral and practical implications of killing children to promote policy.
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you must be on crack to think that "grass roots" and peaceful actions will work against the butchers of kremlin.
Yes, the world obviously went from a handful of democracies to over 120 in the past hundred years by people all over the world blowing up innocent civilians.