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BBC Monitoring
Rebel web site justifies suicide attacks as Chechens'
right to self-defence
Source: Kavkaz-Tsentr news agency web site in Russian 11 Aug 03
An article posted on the Chechen rebel web site Kavkaz-Tsentr has justified
attacks by suicide bombers in Russian cities as the Chechen people's right to
self-defence. It said that those were attacks on "the enemy's
backyard", not
terrorism. The Chechens have endured pain and suffering for 12 years and now
"the time has come to die together", the article said. The following
is the text
of the report by Kavkaz-Tsentr news agency web site:
11 August, Kavkaz-Tsentr correspondent Said Irbakhayev: The destruction of a
military hospital in Mozdok has caused another storm of protest of the
"international community". The actions of the martyrs cannot be
justified, say
assorted public figures and heads of state and send telegrammes with condolences
to
[Russian President Vladimir] Putin. For the sake of justice, we should say
that not all countries send their condolences to the murderers. Still, there are
a lot of those who mourn and condemn.
According to their logic, the Chechen nation must die magnanimously and in
silence, without disturbing the respectable appearance of the "civilized
world"
and without hindering the Kremlin butchers' killings. The Chechens do not have
the right to stain with their blood streets of the Russian cities which are
rear bases of the aggressor's army. You want to shed blood in Chechnya -
please, as much as you want. But only Chechen blood. But shedding blood of the
occupiers is terrorism.
A Russian tank driver, with intestines of Chechen children on its caterpillar
track, and the pilot of a low-flying warplane shelling a bus with women and
infants are just unscrupulous about the use of force. A Chechen fighter firing
at an armoured column or a Chechen widow blowing herself up together with the
pilots who have murdered her children are terrorists and cannot be justified.
According to their logic, Chechen widows, mothers and sisters must become
prostitutes instead of destroying murderers of their relatives and relations.
Becoming a prostitute in order to survive is understandable - this is a
civilized
way. That happens all the time in the "civilized world". Killing a
rapist and
murderer, marauder and butcher at the cost of your own life is terrorism and
barbarism. It is completely impossible to understand this, and therefore this
is dangerous.
The Chechen nation has the right to die but no right to defence. "We
will be
lamenting your heroic death, dear Chechens, and will even condemn Russia at
the next session of the PACE [Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe].
For instance, we will threaten them with a tribunal. However, we will be very
upset if you still continue defending your lives. You do not have missiles and
nuclear weapons, like Russia does; you have no lobby in the US Congress; you
have no aircraft-carriers; and there are too few of you - so, you do not have
the right to resistance. Any attempts to defend yourselves are an illegal
terrorist attack and your soldiers are international terrorists. By your
resistance you are posing a threat to our national security," they tell us
in
Strasbourg and in Washington, welcoming some Chechens while declaring the others
enemies.
Chechnya has been in the state of a concentration camp for 12 years; for 12
years the Chechen people have been exterminated by all possible and impossible
methods; for 12 years the Chechen people have been containing this pain and
suffering within their borders, protecting their neighbours and the peoples of
the aggressor country from these problems. However, the world failed to grasp
the nobility of the Chechen nation. Twelve years are too long a period for a
million-strong nation to continue dying in silence. The critical mass of
national resentment has surpassed all possible limits. The time has come to die
together.
Chechnya has become a hostage to the Kremlin regime. Chechen martyrs are
showing the Russian citizens that they have been, too, held hostage to the
Kremlin.
The Chechen mojahedin are treating the "international community"
and its
leaders, who stink of hypocrisy, with the deepest contempt and disgust. This
community does not deserve being treated differently. It is a rotten system
which
requires human blood for its mechanism to run smoothly. Yet, more and more
pieces of human flesh, from which this blood is squeezed, get stuck in this
mechanism which is being eaten away by the bloody corrosion.
Taking into consideration the logic of those mourning for killed murderers
and condemning the actions of Chechen martyrs, we explain in a language that
they can understand. Everyone wages a war in a way permitted by the budget. Some
can build 20 aircraft-carriers and ply the Persian Gulf; some can build 20
tanks and plough by them the whole of Chechnya; and some can gather 20 martyrs
and attack the enemy's backyard.
This is a purely technical question, sirs - no politics and no terrorism.
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