STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BALKANS RE-ENACT AGGRESSOR APPEASEMENT OF THE 30S Current Balkan developments resemble the aggressor appeasement of the 1930s, Russia's President Vladimir Putin remarked in an interview with the Italian daily, Corriere della Sera. He does not think there is any hope to persuade from the moral point people determined to settle political issues with the force of arms. "We shall never achieve it," he warned. As for the use of force in Chechnya, the President said with sincere regret that "Russia has to retaliate effrontery with force", whose use is necessary with "aggressive fundamentalist action". Federal retaliation is not alien to trespasses. he acknowledged. "When we see the law violated deliberately, we call our soldiers to account, and we openly say so in the national media outlets and elsewhere," said Mr. Putin. Law enforcement efforts in the army receive scanty attention from Western newsmen, who also turn a blind eye to fundamentalists as they go on making war on their own people, he complained. Terror rages on against Chechen civilians, Muslim leaders of the traditional siding, and high administration officers. Murders follow one another to be shrugged off, said the President. http://english.pravda.ru/yougoslavia/2001/07/16/10242.html ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
