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"en.20060119.20.4-156"2
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Chechnya was conquered by Imperial Russia in the 19th century, its people were intermittently deported by Stalin, and, more recently, under Yeltsin and Putin, they have been bombed and murdered. Following the first war, in the 1990s, the peace negotiator Alexander Lebed agreed, on Russia’s behalf, to the democratic choice of independence being made possible following a transitional period, but this has never come to pass, and so one can no longer expect the Chechens to regard their country as part of Russia. No people is willing to subject itself to those who have been most brutal in murdering and oppressing them, and so the resistance will never come to an end, and, I fear, nor will its suppression by means of a military superpower.
This resolution is relatively mild about the intimidation and deception that marked the elections that have now been held, with the intention of conjuring up majority support for Moscow’s puppets. Moreover, the text again lays emphasis on the territorial integrity of Russia, even though the retention of this region as part of Russia is founded upon nothing more than violence. Given the present desperate situation, this resolution, which rightly draws attention to the many abuses, is preferable to continued silence in the face of the misdeeds of our principal supplier of energy, and so I have voted in favour of it."@en1
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