Word: chechenization
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...Acting president Vladimir Putin announced Sunday that Russian forces were in full control of the capital, and had managed to find an administrative building still standing amid the rubble on which to hoist the Russian flag. But with the bulk of the city's two to three thousand Chechen defenders having broken through Russian lines - at a considerable cost in casualties - and made it to the rebel strongholds in the mountains to the south, the war's focus has simply shifted elsewhere...
...overnight rebel withdrawal that began Monday, however, appears to have been anything but the carefully planned and executed tactical retreat the guerrillas may have envisaged: Chechen sources admitted Tuesday that dozens of fighters and commanders were killed or wounded when a large contingent of rebels found themselves trapped on a minefield and were then cut to pieces by Russian artillery. A number of top Chechen leaders were reportedly killed in the fierce fighting to break through the Russian lines, and the rebels' top commander, Shamil Basayev, was reported to have been badly wounded when his car detonated a mine. Both...
...response, Russian generals lashed out as their Chechen adversaries hoped. From now on, Moscow announced, no Chechen male between the ages of 10 and 60 would be considered a refugee. They would be subjected to checks, and those suspected of "terrorism" would undergo further verification in detention centers. In the last war, these "filtration centers" were notorious as places of torture and death. This measure outraged the West, and Moscow quickly backed down. Now only males from 15 on will be subject to checks...
...TIME last week. Troops lack the motivation to fight a long war, and "tanks and artillery solve nothing here." Sure, the massive men and materiel Russia is throwing into the war should eventually prevail--for a time. Moscow has committed 140,000 men to crush the revolt of a Chechen population hovering around 100,000. Sooner or later, Russian troops "will get into Grozny and raise the flag," says Aushev. "But what then...
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