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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Flipside on May 09, 2004, 10:17:19 am

Title: Chechen President Assassinated...
Post by: Flipside on May 09, 2004, 10:17:19 am
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040509/ap_on_re_eu/russia_explosion&cid=518&ncid=716

It's interesting to read Vladmir Putins' comments at the end of the Red Square Parade..... I could draw comparisons here, but I'll leave that to other people ;)
Title: Chechen President Assassinated...
Post by: Turnsky on May 09, 2004, 10:32:26 am
i foresee finger-pointing nonetheless.
Title: Chechen President Assassinated...
Post by: Rictor on May 09, 2004, 11:46:46 am
Aside from the fact that some innocents got hurt, I say good. The Chechens have every right to kill the people who were/are responsible for their oppression. Chechnya is essentially Russia's Palestine, but they get off scott-free because everyone is too busy hating on the US.
Title: Chechen President Assassinated...
Post by: karajorma on May 09, 2004, 11:51:56 am
Yet when the KLA do it you think they're scum :rolleyes:
Title: Chechen President Assassinated...
Post by: Rictor on May 09, 2004, 12:03:09 pm
Except I know from first hand reports, as well as a vareity of media sources, that they (the Albanians in Kosovo) were not being oppressed, especially not for years and years. Quite the opposite actually.

I spoke too soon, I think. It would appear that the President who was killed, though currently pro-Russian, was actually a rebel leader during the 90s. Though of course, the election which put him into power was highly suspect, I expected no less.
Title: Chechen President Assassinated...
Post by: Carl on May 09, 2004, 12:18:06 pm
well, poop. more bad stuff.
Title: Chechen President Assassinated...
Post by: karajorma on May 09, 2004, 01:00:49 pm
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Originally posted by Rictor
Except I know from first hand reports, as well as a vareity of media sources, that they (the Albanians in Kosovo) were not being oppressed, especially not for years and years. Quite the opposite actually.


And the chechen's were before they attempted to break away?