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Anne Le Huérou

Tchétchénie : une affaire intérieure ? Russes et Tchétchènes dans l'étau de la guerre

• Anne Le Huérou (avec Aude Merlin, Amandine Regamey, Silvia Serrano)
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  Chechnya: an internal problem? Russians and Chechens in the Grip of War
  "In December 1994, the first war in Chechnya broke out. Ten years later, the war, which had resumed in 1999 after a three-year truce, rages on to the indifference of international community, with only terrorists acts occasionally drawing media attention. Most of all, the conflict is now treated primarily from the Islamist angle to the detriment of a more precise interpretation of the various factors at work.
  Understanding the deep roots of these two successive wars indeed requires a grasp of the historic importance of Russian colonial conquest, and later the Soviet domination over relations between Chechnya and Russia. The Chechnya's demand for independence stems from this past, which is also the key to understanding the nature and evolution of Chechnya's Islam, of which the ties with Al Qaeda are largely overestimated, if indeed they exist at all.
  The tragedy of this war resides in the excruciating no-exit situation in which Chechens and Russians find themselves today, with their particular history and relations. A vacuum that makes Putin's rhetoric all the more doubtful when, so as to remain master at home, he attempts to designate Chechnya as a front in the war on globalized Islamist terrorism."

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