Absolute success of the Resistance forces
Blast
in the Chechen capital: so, where is peace? All leading Western periodicals
placed their reports about the new action of Chechen Mujahideen in Jokhar
on the front pages right after the events had occurred. As a result of that
action conducted by the Shaheeds, almost 80 people were killed and the building
of pro-Moscow puppet administration was almost totally destroyed, according
to the latest reports. American periodicals such as Washington Post, Washington
Times and The New York Times are unanimous in their evaluation of those events.
«…it sent another powerful signal that rebels seeking to split the semiautonomous republic from Russia were far from being subdued», - The New York Times writes. «Today's attack showed that the Kremlin's representatives in Chechnya
are under siege and Putin is nowhere close to resolving the long-running
conflict», – as Washington Post is commenting. – «The event is likely to
make it even more difficult for the Kremlin to recruit the Chechen workers
it needs to keep order, run schools and deliver pensions in the territory,
located in the Caucasus Mountains between the Black and Caspian seas».
And
Washington Times points out that the blast of pro-Moscow government in the
Chechen capital dealt a serious blow to the attempts of President Putin’s
government to present the case in such a way that after three years of war
the situation in Chechnya is coming back to normal. Washington Times says
that lately Moscow authorities were trying to create an impression that peaceful life is coming back to Chechnya.
For that purpose they have launched a campaign of returning Chechen refugees
by force and organized thoroughly controlled visits of foreign journalists
to the Chechen capital, who are visiting especially selected facilities.
German
press has also commented on these events. Thus, Neues Deutschland newspaper
writes: Not too long ago, for this coming spring Putin set up a constitutional
referendum in Chechnya,
which should be followed by the elections. And Chechen refugees in Ingushetia
have been ordered to return to their homeland. Of course, in strictly voluntary
order, as President Putin stresses. Just too bad that all these elements
of normalization are still accompanied with «cleansings», arrests and oppressions.
All of it casts doubt on Putin’s sincerity.
Russian Duma has acknowledged that military actions in Caucasus are no longer an effective instrument in the fight against militants. And even Putin’s protégés in Chechnya keep repeating that violent acts that Russians are committing lead only to the appearance of new suicide bombers.
The
blast in the Chechen capital… rather confirms the correctness of those who
made such statements instead of the correctness of Putin, - as Neues Deutschland
summarizes.
And German newspaper Tagesspiegel wrote in its editorial – Putin’s harsh and foolish policy in Chechnya is harming the security of Germany. It would be nice if the German government finally found an appropriate form to tell him that.
Another German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau
writes – The political solution, which the Russian President apparently sees
in his mind, is the solution of the conflict with the aid of collaborators.
The politicians appointed by Moscow
and headed by ex-Mufti Ahmed Kadyrov must «Chechenize» the conflict and in
March put the constitution to the referendum and put things in order. They
are not asking the silent majority, who got tired of the war.
It is up to the military to neutralize the Chechen rebellion against Moscow.
But they are doing it in a dirty way. Tortures, robberies, detention in filtration
camps… It will be hard too suppress the rebellion, since during the war the
belligerent generation has grown, which is not ready to compromise.
Department of Cooperation and Mass Media,
Kavkaz-Center