Chechnya

Chechnya is located in the Northern Caucasus Mountain. It has a population of more than 1 million Chechens, who speak either Chechen or Russian, and have a religion of either Muslim or Russian Orthodox. But that number may decrease, rather than increase due to genocide that has been going on for as long as anyone can remember. The Beginning of an Unending Genocide 1. Massive deportation In 1944, Stalin, the then leader of the Soviet Union, had the entire Chechen population deported to Siberia…

Chechnya has been striving for its dependence for hundreds of years, and has been repeatedly denied it by the former Soviet Union, and the current Russia. The Chechens fiercely opposed the Russian conquest of Transcaucasia during the nineteenth century (Shah). Following the Russian Revolution in 1917, Chechnya’s first attempt at declaring its independence was met with Russian occupation (Shah). Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Chechen interest in independence was renewed,…

Erofeev News broke on an April morning that Russian Republic of Chechnya was targeting homosexual males. 100 men were arrested, tortured, and some killed on the basis of their sexual orientation. NPR interviewed Shaun Walker, the Moscow correspondent for the Guardian. Mr. Walker describes the culture of homosexuality in Russian, stating that Russia’s government for the most part turns a blind eye on homosexuals and lesbian, however, Chechnya is a very orthodox Muslin state and challenging a…

Chechnya The ethnic-nationalist Chechen conflict was made more complicated and deadly with the introduction of Arab mujahideen. Emboldened by the Soviet-Afghan War, mujahideen flocked to Chechnya; bringing with them Wahhabism as well as criminal and terroristic behavior like drug smuggling, kidnapping and suicide bombing. The modern conflict has spanned from 1994 to the present, covering two official wars and numerous terror attacks against military, political and civilian targets. Driven by a…

Fear and Hate: Homophobia One of the main human interactions, love, allows people to express their feelings for something or one another resulting in them spreading their affection. What happens when the controlling force over the people, the government, derive those of the same-sexual identities from expressing their own love to each other? Andrew E. Kramer is the writer of the article “Chechen Authorities Arresting and Killing Gay Men, Russian Paper Says” where he writes of the horrors taking…

The Boston Marathon Bombing as it quickly became known as, caused many different views, values and perspectives to be broadcasted around the world, but mostly these views and perspectives had a common trait in that there was outrage that such an attack was a violation of the rights of people to live in freedom and safety. Countries and governments around the world were very quick to respond with condemnation of the actions of the bombing suspects and offer their sympathy to the victims and…

In a 1997 report, 44,490 out of a total of 47,758 disappearance cases were still outstanding. Forced disappearances occur when people are silently snatched by governments and tortured, and have been occurring ever since Adolf Hitler’s totalitarian reign. The Forced Disappearance of Persons, or F.D.P., is the occurrence where governments and their supporters seize individuals who are seen as political threats to the government or the nation’s security and deny committing the act. Not only are the…

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki:- During the last days of the second world war 2 atomic bombs were detonated on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This was the most terrific and destructive incident in the history of wars. The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima which wiped out at least 90 percent of the city and killed 80,000 people in an instance, thousands of people more would die later because of the radiations of the explosion. Just after 3 days another atomic bomb was dropped on city of…

Essay topic Is it possible to defeat a relatively weaker opponent who uses unconventional “asymmetric” tactics? Introductory Paragraph ‘The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose’ (Kissinger, 1969) claims Henry A. Kissinger. Whereas the famous revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara claimed that ‘Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in defence against oppression’…

Suicide Terrorism in Chechnya and Palestine: A Multi-Faceted Oppression.” Suicide bombings carried out by women constitute a relatively new phenomenon, though their numbers have increased in recent years, and they have proved to be more deadly than their male counterparts (as measured by the number of deaths and injuries). Between 1968 and 2012, somewhere between 256 and "more than 300" women carried out or attempted suicide bombing attacks. Female suicide terrorists from Chechnya and…