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By Fehim Taştekin, World Bulletin
Russian leader Dmitri Medvedev must have noticed that the terror tactics which have been used in an unbridled way in Circassia have not done the job, because he gave priority to moderate religious education as an antidote to propaganda war and radicalism in his meeting on August 28th. According to Medvedev, a television station to explain traditional Islam should be established, religious education outside the country should be put under control, and a road should be found for men of religion to work with the youth. Kadirov added to this the recommendation to increase universities like the Kunta Haji Russian Islam University, which was put into service at Jaharkale on August 21st and which gives traditional religious education that supports passivism.
It can be understood that at the meeting Circassian leaders except for Kadirov did not see a military solution as a "solution." As far as the news agencies revealed, after Ingushtia President Yunusbek Yevkurov, who survived the June 22nd assassination attempt with heavy wounds, announced a common war after being enticed by Kadirov in May, he appears to have grasped that a military option is not a solution, particularly as a president who has come from military quarters: "Military force is not an option. We have to reconstruct the value system."
Homework solution for the causers of the problem
While Medvedev reacted to the Nazran attack by removing Ingush Minister of the Interior Ruslan Meyriyev from Office, he asked for recommendations from security chiefs as to how to get the situation in Northern Circassia under control. It is unknown what the persons, who are signally responsible for the war being inflamed in Circassia and for things getting out of control, took to Medvedev as a homework assignment. In the days following Medvedev's instructions, news came that federal forces had been dispatched to Dagestan from the Hankale base in Jaharkale, Chechnya's capital. While it is not known whether or not this has any connection with the new strategy, the fear of the people of Dagestan who saw military trucks in the streets of Makhachkala was that federal intervention would force the republic into an impasse. However, Russian military authorities later announced that there was no new military dispatch to Northern Circassia.
Medvedev has placed his hope in the real instigators of both the military and ideological war.
What could be the recommendations to normalize Circassia from those who burned the office of the Dagestan Mothers in order to silence them when they made a civil struggle to find the youth who were kidnapped in Dagestan just a few weeks ago, who capture religious youth and torture them and then burn them alive in their own vehicles, who for years have kidnapped people in Chechnya for ransom, who kill those whose ransom is not paid and then sell their corpses for thousands of dollars, who raid villages in the name of cleansing, who set fire to the houses of relatives of resistors, who burn the forests so they can not be used as a hideout, who surround villages and turn them into open prisons for months, in short, the security and intelligence forces or "silovikis" who look at Circassians with the eyes of enemies who will exterminate them?
Can an understanding that labels religious youth as Wahhabi and then finds suitable every kind of oppression and that makes Wahhabi lists with the approval of the Administration of Religion and then pursues them stop the resistance ideology?
Can the Russian state which paid those close to the victims of the explosion in Nazran 3200 dollars, but on the same day paid 32,000 dollars or ten times indemnity to the close ones of the dead victims at the Sayano-Shushenskaya power station in Siberia gain the trust of the Circassians?
Can Circassia be free of violence as long as the Russian administration highly regards General Viktor Kazantsev who said during the Chechen war, "They should be openly hung so there is no excuse for the others," and General Gennadi Troshev who said, "All Chechen males are terrorists from the age of ten," and General Vladimir Shamanov who said, "The wives, sisters and mothers of Chechen terrorists are also terrorists"?
The Russians no longer have faith
Even the Russians outside of Circassia no longer believe that Russia can control Circassia. If the Levada Center questionnaire published on August 27th is looked at, while 68% of the Russians fear they will be a victim of terror, 40% believe that state terror cannot prevent terrorist attacks. While 30% indicated that conflict would continue in Chechnya, 16% said that the solution would be by means of giving the Chechens their independence. Undoubtedly the threats of the resistors to carry their attacks to Russia in general have an impact on the Russian public. It was noteworthy that Moscow immediately rejected the claim by Chechen leader Riyad-us-Salihin, known as a Member of the Martyrs and heir to Shamil Basayev who was killed in 2006, to the effect that the Sayano-Shushenkaya power station event on August 17th was not an accident and that they had arranged for a bomb attack. This situation is just opposite to the 1999 FSB's exploding the Moscow and Volgogon buildings as a pretense to invade Chechnya and then throwing the blame on the Chechens.
The Kremlin needed war in 1999, but now it is stability at any price! Forget about the Duma, even Putin while he was eager to bring back the anti-terror regime in Chechnya and surround Northern Circassia in a ring of fire, showed his support to Kadirov by suddenly going to Jaharkale on August 25th. Kadirov's Chechnya can mean a costly success story for Putin and a new announcement of war can be the end of the legend! For this reason, Chechnya's remaining as Potemkin's village for now may appear better for "Czar" Putin.
Part one of article:
The South is yours, "Boss," but what about the North? -1
