Chechnya | Tragedies Adn Triumphs | Syed A.I Tirmazi

know how to use a dagger -I was born in Caucasus.

Alexander Pushkin

And hate, with them, is limitless as love.

Lermontov

Freedom or death is the call heard in the mountains.

Liudmila Kokhanets

One day is like another; yesterday's happenings will be repeated tomorrow everywhere, the mountains, everywhere, the forests, and the Chechens are a ferocious tireless enemy.

General Tornau

I desire that the terror of my name should guard our frontiers more potently than the chains of fortresses, and that my word for the natives should be more inevitable than death....In the eyes of Asiatics condescension is a sign of weakness and from pure humanity I am inexorably severe. One execution saves hundreds of Russians from destruction and thousands of Muslim from treason.

General Yermolov

A horrifying, loathsome spectacle. As lightly-armed Chechens fight like mountain lions against Russian tanks and gunships, Clinton backs Moscow.

Eric Margolis

The war in Chechnya is a historic crime of Russia and Western Democracies.

Elen Bonner