Terror in Chechnya: Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity)
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | yesterday
A suspected militant was killed in Chechnya when police encountered a group of over 10 gunmen in the Caucasus republic's Shali district, a police official said on Monday.
BooMan Tribune (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
My first indication that our country was not responding well to the 9/11 attacks came when Bill Maher was fired from ABC for questioning whether 'cowards' was an apt description for people who willingly fly jet airliners into buildings. I didn't remember the History Channel ever describing kamikaze pilots as lacking courage. If anything, they had a disturbing (inhuman) lack of fear. In fact, the suicidal...
World Affairs Board (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Photos taken near chechnya.
Inductivist (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Coulter is always fun: It cannot be said often enough that the chief of staff of the United States Army, Gen. George Casey, responded to a massacre of 13 Americans in which the suspect is a Muslim by saying: "Our diversity ... is a strength." As long as the general has brought it up: Never in recorded history has diversity been anything but a problem. Look at Ireland with its Protestant and...
Democracy Resource Center Blog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
URL: http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2009/09/28/who-will-tell-me-what-happened-my-son-0 . Source: Human Rights Watch. This 38-page report examines Russia's response to European Court judgments on cases from Chechnya. In almost all of the 115 rulings, the court concluded that Russia was responsible for extrajudicial executions, torture, and enforced disappearances, and that it had failed to investigate...
Democracy Resource Center Blog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
URL: http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=ulink&fn=Link&ssid=500&id=7drrmh6zfobsick2hcuwu3cjsv1ao&id2=25ksikbj1swglt8zc0gnzttyp369v . Source: PACE. This report cites a number of specific cases of human rights abuses throughout the region. It also examines what it calls the "wave of killings of human rights defenders," including the case of Natalya Estemirova, the Memorial human...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
[JURIST] The Constitutional Court of Russia on Thursday extended the moratorium on the death penalty until the Russian parliament ratifies an international treaty abolishing capital punishment. In 1997, Russia signed, but did not ratify, Protocol 6 of the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which was put forward by the Council of Europe (COE) in 1983 to limit the...
Another Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Diversity has jumped the shark, horrifically BY: Ann Coulter It cannot be said often enough that the chief of staff of the United States Army, Gen. George Casey, responded to a massacre of 13 Americans in which the suspect is a Muslim by saying: "Our diversity ... is a strength." As long as the general has brought it up: Never in recorded history has diversity been anything but a problem....
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Two years before she was killed in the stairwell of her Moscow apartment, Anna Politkovskaya mused about life as the Kremlin's number one enemy and pronounced it a "miracle" that she was still alive. The journalist, lauded for her fearless reporting of Russian atrocities in Chechnya, made the comment during the interviews that make up the moving documentary film "Lettre a Anna"...
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
From Coulter's November 18 column , headlined "At the End of the Day, Diversity has Jumped the Shark": It cannot be said often enough that the chief of staff of the United States Army, Gen. George Casey, responded to a massacre of 13 Americans in which the suspect is a Muslim by saying: "Our diversity ... is a strength." As long as the general has brought it up: Never in recorded...
ProudToBeCanadian Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
It cannot be said often enough that the chief of staff of the United States Army, Gen. George Casey, responded to a massacre of 13 Americans in which the suspect is a Muslim by saying: “Our diversity ... is a strength.” As long as the general has brought it up: Never in recorded history has diversity been anything but a problem. Look at Ireland with its Protestant and Catholic populations,...
Shooting The Messenger (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
"It cannot be said often enough that the chief of staff of the United States Army, Gen. George Casey, responded to a massacre of 13 Americans in which the suspect is a Muslim by saying: "Our diversity ... is a strength." As long as the general has brought it up: Never in recorded history has diversity been anything but a problem. Look at Ireland with its Protestant and Catholic populations,...
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Daniel Hamilton must be thinking of Kosovo, or of Georgia, or increasingly of Bosnia. Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria and Nagorno-Karabakh have never been governed in practice by post-Soviet Georgia, Moldovo or Azerbaijan. Nor were they ever part of pre-Soviet Georgia, Moldavia or Azerbaijan. Do they want, as Kosovo did and as Chechnya does, to join globalisation, European federalism, and American...
Voice of the Resistance (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
This is not justification for war, yet also I am no pacifist. Why did Major Hasan do it'??? On 5 November, Major Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 people at a military base. In the US, this event has already become deeply and divisively political. But why'?? Its still not entirely clear what his motives were. Some stress that he was an Islamic religious extremist. Others that he was angered by the wars in...
birdbrain (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
And guess where it's going? We shall see how many of you know Chechnya well. Choose one of the following: a) Russia b) Ukraine c) United States d) Saudi Arabia e) England f) China The answer, the article, and my various comments are below the jump. Those of you who guessed d) Saudi Arabia are correct. Congratulations. Now, onto the article, courtesy of the BBC : The first international flight to leave...
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