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posted by zaina19 on May, 2005 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/17/2005 4:29 PM 17.05.2005 Balance of terror Uzbekistan may be a faraway country of which we normally know very little, but the weekend bloodshed in which the security forces reportedly killed hundreds of people requires our close and urgent attention. If the figures are correct, the crackdown in Andijan and elsewhere has been the most violent in Asia since the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. President Karimov is an autocrat but an ally of the US, and Britain. Both countries have embassies in Tashkent — though the UK has been more publicly critical of the regime’s well-documented human rights abuses. President Karimov has provided valuable support for the «war on terror» in neighbouring Afghanistan. But it is unacceptable that foreign ambassadors, journalists, the Red Cross and other observers have been prevented from visiting Andijan, and right that Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, has condemned the carnage and demanded immediate access. Comments from Washington have been less satisfactory, with US spokesmen maintaining a careful ... >> full
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/18/2005 5:02 AM Death and the Dictator By Leon Aron Posted: Monday, April 18, 2005 BOOK REVIEWS The Washington Post Publication Date: April 17, 2005 Stalin: A Biography By Robert Service Belknap/Harvard Univ. 715 pp. $29.95 Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him By Donald Rayfield Random House. 541 pp. $29.95 Villains fascinate, and mass murderers doubly so. From Herod to Pol Pot, Genghis Khan to Hitler, Ivan the Terrible to Saddam Hussein, we have been drawn to the edge of the abyss for a glance into the bottomless and cold darkness of Great Evil. What for? To confirm our own humanity? To learn, and guard against, the warning signs of advancing savagery? Even in this gallery of mega-rogues, Joseph Stalin stands apart. Although second to his imitator Mao Zedong in the absolute numbers of the compatriots killed (shot, tortured to death in prisons, starved in villages, murdered in concentration camps) and to Pol Pot in the proportion of the country's population exterminated, Stalin may be unmatched, ... >> full
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/19/2005 1:01 PM 19.05.2005 Three trials Is it a coincidence that three meaningful trials are taking place during these days in Russia? Most probably this is a mere coincidence, but this is a sinister coincidence… The trial in Moscow has been discussed for a long time. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a businessman, until recently the richest man in Russia and one of the richest in the world, was put in the dock. The main point of the trial is not to punish the businessman who “evaded paying taxes” but to seize the richest Russian oil company from him and to pass it over to Putin’s “family” (his colleagues from FSB). Besides, there is another goal: this trial must become demonstrative to those oligarchs who can imagine that “Russia’s managed democracy” allows them to freely finance Putin’s opposition. Together with his colleague Lebedev, Khodorkovsky is likely to be sentenced for years. The remnants of democratic opposition supporting him is being dissolved by OMON in front of the ... >> full
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/25/2005 5:05 AM 25.05.2005 Kadyrov’s experience Commenting on the recent action of Alkhanov’s government of Chechnya trying to return Chechen refugees from Georgia, Dmitry Oreshkin, the head of the Merkator group, sounded quite positive about the idea. Although he called it unpromising for the following reason: “Kadyrov’s Chechnya – isn’t a safe place to live. There is no constitutional order in Chechnya, people are being abducted and killed there at night, death squads exist there”… After that Oreshkin makes a shocking, illogical for a normal person conclusion: “I believe that this step will have the efficiency of a steam-engine, no more than 12%. That means if at least every tenth returns – that will be a success.” A success when every refugee returned from Georgia by persuasion will have to live on the territory of a crying arbitrariness? It seems, that is the case… From the other hand, there is a rational grain in Oreshkin’s comment, on the basis of which we can ... >> full
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"To entrust the punishment of the murderers to the Most High"
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rom: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/28/2005 5:22 AM May, 28, 2005 "To entrust the punishment of the murderers to the Most High" Salam, Chechen people. Peace to you, Caucasus. I am a Buddhist, and I ask you to read my letter with tolerance, it is written with great compassion to the sorrow of your people. The Most High does not forbid listening to the opinion of other religions, on the contrary, the Koran calls to study, and all envoys came at different time from one source. There is only one founder, and there is no other God. The Buddhism approves, that the reason of sufferings is in a person, that there is no other paradise and hell, except for on the earth. As the reason in a person, it can be eliminated also by a person. Many Chechens consider it to be a treachery in relation to those, who was lost for freedom of the people, to stop the struggle against Russians. From the point of view of ... >> full
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