http://siberianlight.net/transcript-of-basayevs-abc-interview/ The Russia Blog Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:30:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://siberianlight.net/transcript-of-basayevs-abc-interview/comment-page-1/#comment-5768 David McDuff Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://65.124.18.226/~siberian/?p=615#comment-5768 There are certainly some controversial aspects surrounding Andrei Babitsky's interview with Shamil Basayev. However, the whole issue needs to be seen in the context of widespread Western ignorance of what has taken place in Chechnya during the last ten years: the total destruction of Grozny, the capital of the tiny Chechen Republic, by indiscriminate carpet bombing which killed thousands of civilians, including many ethnic Russians, and the almost total destruction of other population centres. Since 1994 more than 200,000 men, women and children have been killed by Russian and Russian-backed forces in Chechnya. There are certainly some controversial aspects surrounding Andrei Babitsky’s interview with Shamil Basayev. However, the whole issue needs to be seen in the context of widespread Western ignorance of what has taken place in Chechnya during the last ten years: the total destruction of Grozny, the capital of the tiny Chechen Republic, by indiscriminate carpet bombing which killed thousands of civilians, including many ethnic
Russians, and the almost total destruction of other population centres. Since 1994 more than 200,000 men, women and children have been killed by Russian and Russian-backed forces in Chechnya.

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