Recently I´ve seen on CNN some extracts from a speech of Basayev. There was said, that The UK’s Channel 4 News has aired an interview with a Chechen rebel leader who masterminded the Beslan school siege, despite Russian protests that the broadcast helped terrorists.
Basayev insists that while Russia continues to occupy Chechnya, this is a justified war. His reason are hundreds of thousands of Chechen civilians killed in the conflict.
Speaking about the school hostage siege in Beslan, he said among other things that Russians aren´t innocent (similar as Churchill in his essay about 9/11):
"You must understand us correctly. We are at war. Russians approve of Putin's policies. They pay their taxes for this war, send their soldiers to this war, their priests sprinkle holy water on the soldiers, and bless their 'holy duty', calling them heroic defenders of the fatherland.
We are planning Beslan-type operations in the future because we are forced to do so. Today our citizens are disappearing. Our girls disappear without a trace. They can take anyone. In order to stop this chaos we have to respond in the same way.
Cynical though it may seem, we are planning these operations, and we will conduct them, if only to show the world again and again the true face of the Russian regime, the true face of Putin with his Satanic horns, so that the world sees his true face. In order to stop the genocide we will stop at nothing.”
Three years after the first war ended, Putin launched the second.
But having already said that there were more Beslans planned, Basayev also argued, too many had already died.
"That is why we are ready to stop the war, and as Maskhadov says to start negotiations without preconditions. But there is one condition. That is the non-negotiable and full withdrawal of the occupying Russian troops from our territory.
If the Russians withdraw their troops and cease the genocide of our people, I am ready to stand before a court, and I will accept any decision of the court with due deference."
Basayev said also: "To be honest I didn't originally plan for this to happen in Beslan, we planned the operation for Moscow or St Petersburg, or both simultaneously but we ran out of money.
Basayev said he had not anticipated the Beslan siege would end with quite the bloodshed that accompanied it and blamed the Russian response for that.
"We're not exactly delighted by what happened in Beslan. To be honest, I am even shocked by what happened there, and am still in a state of shock. I didn't expect such cruelty."
But Basayev is not talking about what his people did, he is talking about the Russians. He blames them for storming the school and killing the children.
He said: "I never thought they'd do it."
In one of his earlier statements, Basayev blamed President Vladimir Putin for the tragedy which he said had been brought about by Russian special forces storming the school after two days on September 3 in an operation that had been planned from the beginning.
He said the group, who held more than 1,100 people hostage inside the school, had been demanding the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya and, in the absence of this, the resignation of Putin.
Basayev said the group had told intermediaries who came to the school that the hostages would be given food and water and the youngest children released if the Russian side began to meet their demands.
Putin has ordered a security clampdown throughout the Caucasus region in the aftermath of the Beslan tragedy, but has steadfastly refused to negotiate over Chechen independence with rebel leaders.
The Beslan operation was an horrible act. On the other hand, injustice breeds injustice.
On one hand nearly 165 (?) children died in Beslan (mainly by Russian storming the building), on the other hand about 42,000 children were killed by 2004 by Russian forces in War on Chechnya. What an hypocrisy, Putin saying: "We will never deal with these bastards. No-one has the moral right to tell us to talk to child-killers".
Think also about, what a horrible evil Russia has done to Chechen nation since 18th century ...
Oh, I see, Putin is wanted too
:
Russian-Chechen War Turns into Bounty Race
“The rebels accused Putin of launching a war against Chechnya and organizing mass murders, kidnappings, torture and overall genocide of the Chechen people. They also claimed that he was responsible for the recent school siege in the south Russian city of Beslan. Leaving the technicalities of apprehending “the war criminal Putin” to the imagination of potential bounty-hunters, the separatists basically offered the money to anyone able to pull it off.”
Basayev insists that while Russia continues to occupy Chechnya, this is a justified war. His reason are hundreds of thousands of Chechen civilians killed in the conflict.
Speaking about the school hostage siege in Beslan, he said among other things that Russians aren´t innocent (similar as Churchill in his essay about 9/11):
"You must understand us correctly. We are at war. Russians approve of Putin's policies. They pay their taxes for this war, send their soldiers to this war, their priests sprinkle holy water on the soldiers, and bless their 'holy duty', calling them heroic defenders of the fatherland.
We are planning Beslan-type operations in the future because we are forced to do so. Today our citizens are disappearing. Our girls disappear without a trace. They can take anyone. In order to stop this chaos we have to respond in the same way.
Cynical though it may seem, we are planning these operations, and we will conduct them, if only to show the world again and again the true face of the Russian regime, the true face of Putin with his Satanic horns, so that the world sees his true face. In order to stop the genocide we will stop at nothing.”
Three years after the first war ended, Putin launched the second.
But having already said that there were more Beslans planned, Basayev also argued, too many had already died.
"That is why we are ready to stop the war, and as Maskhadov says to start negotiations without preconditions. But there is one condition. That is the non-negotiable and full withdrawal of the occupying Russian troops from our territory.
If the Russians withdraw their troops and cease the genocide of our people, I am ready to stand before a court, and I will accept any decision of the court with due deference."
Basayev said also: "To be honest I didn't originally plan for this to happen in Beslan, we planned the operation for Moscow or St Petersburg, or both simultaneously but we ran out of money.
Basayev said he had not anticipated the Beslan siege would end with quite the bloodshed that accompanied it and blamed the Russian response for that.
"We're not exactly delighted by what happened in Beslan. To be honest, I am even shocked by what happened there, and am still in a state of shock. I didn't expect such cruelty."
But Basayev is not talking about what his people did, he is talking about the Russians. He blames them for storming the school and killing the children.
He said: "I never thought they'd do it."
In one of his earlier statements, Basayev blamed President Vladimir Putin for the tragedy which he said had been brought about by Russian special forces storming the school after two days on September 3 in an operation that had been planned from the beginning.
He said the group, who held more than 1,100 people hostage inside the school, had been demanding the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya and, in the absence of this, the resignation of Putin.
Basayev said the group had told intermediaries who came to the school that the hostages would be given food and water and the youngest children released if the Russian side began to meet their demands.
Putin has ordered a security clampdown throughout the Caucasus region in the aftermath of the Beslan tragedy, but has steadfastly refused to negotiate over Chechen independence with rebel leaders.
The Beslan operation was an horrible act. On the other hand, injustice breeds injustice.
On one hand nearly 165 (?) children died in Beslan (mainly by Russian storming the building), on the other hand about 42,000 children were killed by 2004 by Russian forces in War on Chechnya. What an hypocrisy, Putin saying: "We will never deal with these bastards. No-one has the moral right to tell us to talk to child-killers".
Think also about, what a horrible evil Russia has done to Chechen nation since 18th century ...
Oh, I see, Putin is wanted too
:Russian-Chechen War Turns into Bounty Race
“The rebels accused Putin of launching a war against Chechnya and organizing mass murders, kidnappings, torture and overall genocide of the Chechen people. They also claimed that he was responsible for the recent school siege in the south Russian city of Beslan. Leaving the technicalities of apprehending “the war criminal Putin” to the imagination of potential bounty-hunters, the separatists basically offered the money to anyone able to pull it off.”
