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Well said Jaguar.
I dont know nearly enough about the complexities of the Russia-Chechnya conflict and I have followed it for some years. It is almost impossible to actually get a clear accounting of what has been going on as we are to a large extent reliant upon the agendas of major media corporations for our information.
What I find saddening is that we are all much moved at the heartrending scene of a little russian girl being half dragged half run to safety from that school yet the equally heartrending picture of a little chechen girl half running half stumbling to get out of her house as the Russians begin to demolish it around her gets no attention.
What the children in that school and their parents are suffering is appalling. It does us credit as humans that we are moved by this. But countless Chechen children have died in fear or shivered through a night of terror. Countless Chechen mothers have had seen their little ones die and countless Chechen babies have lost their families to a russian advance. That we as a community remain unmoved by their plight does us no credit whatsoever.
It strikes me as interesting that many of the people who display the least understanding of the Chechen point of view are American. Perhaps America is simply too strong for it's people to be able to truly understand what it might be to be weak.
Many people have said that nothing excuses the targetting of innocent children. I would counter that nothing excuses the strong violently imposing their will upon the weak.
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