was i wrong?
in reference to chechens and palestinians during GP essay: they're freedom fighters so i explicitly said so and left them out of the equation in my definition of terrorism.
is it possible to tell the difference??? my classification was that the war was against international terrorism - fundamentalism. but now i really have no fucking idea. Are the Chechen's terrorists? tell me.
No. Their activities have been limited to Ingushetia and Russia itself and have never explicitly threatened the free world. Their aim is not fundamentalism, it is independence that has been denied to them for 200 years. They are nationalist in nature, fighting for the independence of the Republic of Chechnya.
Yes. Their activities are brutally violent. They take hostages, they kill hostages, they bomb Russian civillians in the air, in their homes, in hospitals, on their way to work - everywhere.
Then again, it is a provoked war. The Russians annexed the republic centuries ago and they have risen against their occupiers and their process of Russification whenever they could. Without the might of the Soviet Army, Russia cannot hold Chechnya to it.
It has become a modern day 'Afghanistan debacle' for Vladimir Putin. Worse still, the battle is no longer fought on the battlefields of Chechnya itself but in the midst of the Russian Republic. So freedom fighter or terrorist? I say freedom fighter and hopefully whoever marks my GP paper agrees.
is it possible to tell the difference??? my classification was that the war was against international terrorism - fundamentalism. but now i really have no fucking idea. Are the Chechen's terrorists? tell me.
No. Their activities have been limited to Ingushetia and Russia itself and have never explicitly threatened the free world. Their aim is not fundamentalism, it is independence that has been denied to them for 200 years. They are nationalist in nature, fighting for the independence of the Republic of Chechnya.
Yes. Their activities are brutally violent. They take hostages, they kill hostages, they bomb Russian civillians in the air, in their homes, in hospitals, on their way to work - everywhere.
Then again, it is a provoked war. The Russians annexed the republic centuries ago and they have risen against their occupiers and their process of Russification whenever they could. Without the might of the Soviet Army, Russia cannot hold Chechnya to it.
It has become a modern day 'Afghanistan debacle' for Vladimir Putin. Worse still, the battle is no longer fought on the battlefields of Chechnya itself but in the midst of the Russian Republic. So freedom fighter or terrorist? I say freedom fighter and hopefully whoever marks my GP paper agrees.
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