RUSSIAN CHECHEN

Russian Chechen War and Conflict

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Russian Chechen War and Conflict

Introduction

The first Chechen war was between the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and separatist Chechnya (located in the North Caucasus Russia), which took place in 1994 to 1996. To ensure control over the resources of the Caspian, and especially the pipeline network required by their operation, the Russian Federation and the United States engage in power struggles muscled several strategic areas (German 2003, pp. 101-123). Chechnya is one of those republics and thus, 4 November 1991 Dzhokhar Dudayev elected president of the Autonomous Republic of Chechnya-Ingushetia October 27, 1991, proclaimed the secession and independence of Chechnya. Fearing that the example got followed elsewhere, Russian President Boris Yeltsin denounced the independence and ordered a state of emergency in Grozny.

The Conflict

The surprise attack of the Russian army in 1994 under the leadership of Boris Yeltsin, the first president of the Russian post-Soviet, becomes, with more than 30,000 soldiers, the largest military operation organized by Moscow for its intervention in war of Afghanistan. Yeltsin needed a rapid and victorious war to prove to his people that Russia was still a superpower and thus, establish his authority as commander for the presidential election. Instead of a blitzkrieg glorious war proved a military defeat for Russia, and humanitarian who met fierce resistance from Chechen fighters (Gilligan 2010, pp. 36-49). The Russian army captured the capital, Grozny, after heavily bombed. Nearly 400,000 flee fighting very deadly that would have between 80,000 and 100,000 deaths, including 5,000 casualties among Russian soldiers and thousands of civilian deaths in Chechnya. From there, the war spread to other Chechen cities, falling one after the other, always after intense shelling. Dzhokhar Dudayev died hit by a Russian missile, which got located in refuge through his mobile phone (Oliker 2001, pp. 33-60). On August 6, 1996, the Chechens resume Grozny after heavy fighting. Russia is negotiating the cease fire in exchange for the withdrawal of its troops.

Early History of Conflict

Chechnya came under Russian rule in 1858 is the result of decades of conquest of the Caucasus, but the Chechens, Muslims speaking a distinctive language, never reconciled to Russian rule, constantly trying to gain independence, including forming in May 1918 the Republic of North Caucasus, recognized by the warring countries of Russia. In 1921, the general participation of Joseph Stalin in Vladikavkaz Autonomous Soviet Republic got created Gorska, which then got isolated several autonomous regions, including Chechnya in November 1922. In 1934, he entered into part Ingush Autonomous Checheno Soviet Socialist Republic (Evangelista 2002, pp. 96-132). Following the uprisings in 1940 and 1943, Stalin undertook in 1944 a decision to deport the entire Chechen population (as well as other nations of the Northern Caucasus), to camps in Kazakhstan and Siberia because of alleged collaboration with the Third Reich, in the course of this operation killed up to 50% the population of Chechnya. In 1957, Nikita Khrushchev once again created a Checheno Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and the Chechens could return ...