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The most savage war in the world
(Patrick Cockburn, The Independent, 27 October 2002)
I have never seen a country so ravaged by war. The Chechen capital, Grozny, is a great seascape of ruins, mile after mile of concrete buildings shelled and bombed in two wars. In many villages, all the houses have been destroyed, their burnt rafters open to the sky. . . . From the beginning the Russians were determined to exclude the media, or allow it to cover the war only on Moscow's terms. "Get the hell out of here or I'll throw you in jail right now!" shouted a beefy Russian colonel, giving me a shove backwards when I tried to enter Chechnya officially, on a Russian-controlled road. . . . Given their military superiority, the Russians should have been able to consolidate the victories won in the first six months of the present war. It did not happen because their army was a rabble, living off the land, killing and extracting bribes from their victims' families. The savagery of the Russian occupation has reduced the Chechens to a state of desperation, of which the attack on the theatre in Moscow is the latest fruit.

posted by LoZo 10:19 AM