The Imperial War In The Caucasus!

The Caucasus Region had always been the center of attention for many colonial, imperial and greedy conquerors, subjugators, and vanquishers. Many imperial powers had always competed and fought against each others’ interests on the soil of the Caucasus; apparently the power-hungry authorities, dictators, and juntas, that always had the aspiration to seize other countries and regions for the desire of capturing the lands and territories of other nations, which automatically caused the misery in life of inhabitants and peoples due to the reality that destiny and fate of tens of nations would be affected for tens and hundreds of years.

Extra ordinary situations and conditions, and war conflicts will not produce any good quality benefits; but on the contrary, they would produce more hate, pane, disasters and human suffering.

Humanity necessitates that civilized society is to be run and managed by combinations of rules, regulations, policies and wisdom. If those were not there and/or some of those factors were either not current or accessible to refer to, then realization of truth and legitimacy would not be proper, which would lead to take inappropriate decision that might bring catastrophes and tragedies to all nations involved in any armed clash or conflict.

The series of colonial wars that had always been erupting in the Caucasus for the recent hundreds of years, had created unstable region that continued witnessing armed-conflicts and wars between imperial states and the indigenous peoples of the area for the obvious object of capturing those nations and to make them governed by those who think that they were designated to rule other nations and to steer their destiny and future, without their consent and/or permission, while they ignored and disregarded the wisdom of “Mahatma Gandhi”  as saying: “Good government is no substitute for self-government.”

The most recent war that had erupted in the North Caucasus in August, 2008 is the war which broke up actually in South Ossetia between Russia and Georgia as competing imperial countries in the Caucasus that need to assert their imperial influence and its consequences on the nations of the North Caucasus. Russia, being calling itself the Russian Federation is contained of more than 100 occupied nations with a total population of approximately 142 million, with some of those occupied nations being in the North Caucasus, while Georgia, that is considered located in the South Caucasus, is comprised of different ethnic groups, with a total population of approximately 4.5 million people.

The present conflict is not a recent one, but it was created by Tsarist Russia as one of the consequences of the Russian-Caucasian War that postponed in the year 1864, and Ossetia, beside other North Caucasian nations was totally occupied by Russia, which was partially transferred by the famous dictator Stalin during the Soviet era to his native country Georgia, being one of the 15 Republics of USSR. Stalin was more of an evil-artistic in making the trouble even worse, when he divided Ossetia to North Ossetia as part of the Republic of Russia, and South Ossetia which was decided to be part of Georgia, in addition to hand Abkhazia as another present to his indigenous country Georgia.

When the Soviet Union started to collapse, South Ossetia fought a war in 1991-1992, to break away from the newly independent Georgia, which resulted in a Russian enforced ceasefire, which made south Ossetia as an undeclared part of the so-called Russian Federation.  In 2004 the elected Georgian president, Mikhail Saakashvili promised to restore the so-called lost territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, while South Ossetia had voted for independence through a self-proclaimed referendum; but in April 2008, Russia had stepped up relations and ties with both Abkhazia and South Ossetia. In July, 2008, Russia and Georgia started accusing each other of military buildup in the region, while in 7 and 8, August, 2008, clashes and fighting were intensified with both Russian and Georgian military forces were engaged in face-to-face fighting in South Ossetia’s capital city of Tskhinvali.

Selfishness and self-centeredness are the core reasons for the close and bitter competition and face-saving contest that would give the impression for the inhabitants that their life and fate were never and will never be the concern of those who are behind the break out of the present fighting.

Russia and Georgia are butchering and slaughtering the men and women through sending their armed forces to war, that contained jet-fighters, tanks, artillery, and infantry which resulted in human losses, injuries, and destruction.

As had been always the case, civilians and particularly the citizens of the North Caucasus, are the main victims of the war that was brought to the region by the greedy foreigners and the outsiders. The North Caucasus doesn’t want this war of influence and imperialism.

Both Russia and Georgia should immediately reach and decide on a cease fire and to withdraw their forces that they are engaged in a fierce fighting and in the battles which they are taking place in the North Caucasus, to their original positions and locations.

The international community is urged to be involved in solving out the problems created by the imperial ambitions as follow:

- Arrange and force a “peace plan” after establishing talks between the struggling states of Russia and Georgia.

- The Russian and Georgian citizens must be given the freedom to choose and select their own representatives and governments, and to be able to decide whether to go for war or peace.

- The peaceful solution should be implemented in accordance with the “United Nations Charter”, and the “International Law” about Human Rights and ending imperialism.

- The nations and peoples of the North Caucasus should be granted the right to choose and to exercise the right of self-determination, in order to select their own destiny.

The events that are taking place nowadays should encourage peoples and nations of the North Caucasus like Abkhazians, Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, Ossetians, and others to act and to work harder with all peace loving nations who are willing to help, for the noble cause of restoring rights and freedom, and to force the fighting imperial states to drive their fighting forces away and let them fight somewhere else. John Charles Salak said: “Failures are divided into two classes-those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.”

Eagle

10-August-2008

Justice For North Caucasus Group