Chechnya

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Chechnya

• Oil Politics, Images of War, and Conspiracy?
• By Reid Wilson

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Background

• Years of being exiled, refugees
• 1990- Chechnya agreed to declare their
  independence
• Article 72- anyone seeking independence was given
  it
• 1992 Federation Treaty, refused to sign
• First War 1994-96 Rebels held them off
• De facto independence

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Background

• Second War 1999-? Russians have won, so far
• In response to terrorist bombings of Russian
  apartment buildings
• Why the difficulty to cede this territory?
• Ethnic/State Nationalism? Muslim Fundamentalists
  in Orthodoxy State?
• Example to rest of republics?
• One underlying reason lies in what Chechnya has
  but Russia wants

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OIL!!!
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MAP
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Existing and Proposed Pipelines
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Who benefits from each Route?Who can manipulate
that which can improve their stance? Who can
kill more?
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Unfortunately, Big Oil's greed has not abated a
whit. The American and British rulers have a new
imperialistic strategy by which they hope to gain
total control of the world's energy supplies.
First, they sell armaments to a regime (for
example, Panama, Iraq, Yugoslavia/Kosovo,
Afghan/Pakistan/Taliban Mujaheddin, Saudi
Arabia). Then, they demonize the regime to which
they sold the armaments and declare war on it
(e.g. Panama Invasion, Gulf War, UN Kosovo war,
current Afghanistan war). After the war, they
station permanent military bases in the country
and use the military bases to control the energy
resources in the surrounding countries. Current
U.S. foreign policy is governed by the doctrine
of "full-spectrum dominance" the U.S. must
control military, economic and political
developments everywhere. (www.hermes-press.com/
impintro.htm)
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Keep the production within the borders at all
costs! How many barrels is a life worth?
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During the War, Chechnya is destroyed
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Targeting oil wells
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Russians Bomb Chechen Oil Well
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Oil rigs around and inside Grozny were targeted
to cut off economic ties.
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Over 15,000 Backyard Refineries Spring Up
Throughout Chechnya.
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Environmental Implications
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Chechnya contained oil, but Russia was more
interested in the oil pipeline that ran through
the country. If they took away their wealth,
their income, and what they relied upon for daily
life, they would not be able to fight back as
easily.
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Effects from radiation were not uncommon. The
health of thousands of Chechens deteriorates
rapidly.
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During the war, Russian soldiers frequently
lacked clean drinking water, clean clothing, hot
rations and bathing facilities. Personnel
experienced problems with lice, skin diseases and
a rapidly growing population of rats. Hepatitis A
normally results from drinking contaminated water
or from inadequate waste disposal which
contributes to the fecal-oral mode of transmission
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Refugee Camps
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This family faces a long, hard winter.
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Inside a refugee tent
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In 1999, at least 80 of children living in
refugee camps on the border are suffering from
anaemia and/or malnutrition, according to one
doctor.
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Grab whats left and start walking
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Revert back to the basics and make due with what
is available.
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Media War Coverage
We only see whos shooting the guns whos doing
the killing. This is the clean and heroic side
of war!
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This child was hit by a Russian Missile. She has
no more legs.
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Immediate Casualties were high, but the long-term
health casualties will be just as high.
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Google.com Chechnya Landscapethe only image
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Notice the color of the air in the background.
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Is this picture from WWII or from the Chechen
Conflict?
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A Damaged Bus is Made into a Café in Grozny.
One bright side to war is this bombed out bus
turned into a makeshift café.
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Putin and officials in Moscow
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Moscow Theatre and Apartment Bombings Conspiracy?
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After theatre incident, more Chechens detained.
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Sources

• www.telegraph.co.uk/.../news/ 2002/06/07/woil07.xm
  l
• http//www.amina.com/maps/grozny_refi.jpg
• http//conflict.gq.nu/Images/thm_oilwell.jpg
• http//act-intl.org/images/w-photos/photo_2001/Nor
  thCaucasus/chech_camp_fatima.jpg
• http//www.truthinmedia.org/Images2000/caspian-oil
  -map2.gif
• http//www.wm.edu/FAS/faculty/People_and_Earth/Fig
  _529.jpg
• http//csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/2001/03/02/csmim
  g/0302p8b.jpg
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/417797.stm
  
• http//www.inchinapinch.com/hab_pgs/terres/conifer
  ous/images/pipeline.jpg
• http//www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/russia-oilprod.gi
  f
• www.tda.gov/graphics/oil_refinery.jpg
• www.users.cloud9.net/bradmcc/ cgi-bin/vuImage.pl?
  i49
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38387000/jpg/_3
  8387897_bomb_150afp.jpg
• www.rte.ie/news/2002/1026/Moscow.jpg
• http//english.peopledaily.com.cn/200210/25/images
  /terro.jpg
• www.amina.com/images/
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/522050.stm
  
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/522050.stm
  
• http//www.sohoblues.com/GulfWarWeb/images/thumbna
  ils/thumbnail24.jpg

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Apartment Bombings/Conspiracy

• http//www.etaiwannews.com/World/2002/07/29/102792
  5922.htm
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/417797.stm
  
• http//www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,247
  714,00.html
• www.schnews.org.uk/archive/pdf/news379.pdf
  us/russian oil involvement
• http//www.amina.com/article/contheo.html