i think this article sums up what is required for peace. you can kill as many of muslims as you want but if you really want to live in peace, you either kill all one billion plus muslims or you just stop the terror. increasing killings on the name of war on terror wont stop the attacks and it will continue. keep living in your cucoon about false sense of “security”, but you know in deep in your hearts that as long as the causes for the resistance exist, there will be resistance and it will be death by a thousand cuts inshallah.
After the well-known events in Beslan the anti-Chechen hysteria in Russian media broke out with even more power! And again Chechens are ‘brutes’, ‘fiends’, ‘terrorists’, ‘Wahabists’, etc…
During the first days of the tragedy the press and the TV (including the Western ones) were literally choking on the bloody materials coming from Beslan. Everybody had been missing stories that tickle your nerves. Bread and circuses…
Comes out to be pretty interesting terminology! When Russian (or American, doesn’t matter) warplanes drop a bomb on a peaceful home and when people die (children, women, the elderly, the sick…), it’s called a war, but when an adversary breaks onto the enemy soil and carries out an attack – that’s called terrorism. I.e., once armed with all sorts of weapons thinkable and unthinkable, big powers demand that a war is fought by all rules that they prescribed. Otherwise the resistance will be wrong and your actions will be considered as being illegitimate. Such things are now happening in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine.
Children died in Beslan. I feel very sorry for all of them, and for their parents especially. But what about 42,000 Chechen children out of the total number of 250,000 Chechens who died over the past 10 years? Are they not humans? Does anybody really think that after such massacre Chechens will still have some feelings remaining other than the feeling of hatred and revenge, which fully absorbs everything else?
No doubt, deaths of children is a tragedy, but it is unlikely to cause any emotions in Chechnya, the country stained with blood and drained of blood by Putin’s gang; especially when Beslan’s children were killed by Russian troops and secret services, but not by Chechen guerillas. Chechnya has lost too much blood to have any room remaining for compassion.
How many times the Maskhadov Administration has called upon the so-called international community with the request to act as intermediaries, to interfere and to do something in order not to bring it this far! But they would not interfere.
Attacks are following one after another. Planes are being shot down, blasts are heard in cities, people are dying by hundreds, and militants are walking around Russia like they own the place.
The Western press is still trying to criticize Russian authorities somehow for their refusal to conduct negotiations with President Maskhadov, for their unprofessionalism and for other sins. What irritates me the most is the Arab press! As soon as it all started, everybody started wailing and crying out loud: «Such actions are undermining Islam! Islam is a religion of peace!»
Gulf News, a newspaper based in the United Arab Emirates, was discussing the ‘sally of militants’ in Ossetia in a special editorial each day, as if newspaper was afraid that the its opinion would remain unnoticed. Some pseudo-theologian, Yusuf Ibrahim (issue dated 09-07-2004) was grieving that from that time on Russians would be hating Chechens (as if they ever liked us), that Turkey would not be admitted into the European Union (what a tragedy!), that Muslims would not be issued visas (and that’s a real catastrophe, how can Muslims be living without ones!) and other bologna. In other words, say goodbye to international friendship!
You’d think that once rebels in Chechnya, Iraq, Afghanistan and other places will lay down arms and turn into grain-growers, then everything will be all right and there will be paradise on earth. The Jews will fraternize with Palestinians and Russians will be hugging and kissing with Chechens. Are we supposed to believe that rubbish?!
Where there’s no justice, there can be no peace. There can be no peace when one person kills another, calls such murder legitimate and calls the victim’s resistance illegitimate. There can be no peace when one is proclaiming his absolute power over another and deprives the other one of his right to free choice.
So, however sad it may sound, one could predict with a great deal of probability that attacks will be continuing, tragedy will be repeating and more and more unpleasant news will be coming from Russia again and again, even if they proclaim that Chechnya is paradise on earth, – until the last boot of Russian invaders and until a stinking foot of Chechen national-traitor-trash leave the Chechen land.
S. Avturkhanov,
Department of Correspondence,
Kavkaz Center
2004-11-24 00:38:08