First war of Chetchnia

Between 1991 and 1994, the nationalists tchetchenes drive out several tens of thousands of Russians, Armenians, Juifs and other minorities not-Moslem women of Chetchnia, in particular of Grozny where two thirds of the population were Russian speakers. Several were taken as hostages or even assassinated. The industry and the economic life of Chetchnia gradually criminalisèrent with like basic phenomenon the diversion of the federal and oil monetary resources. Massive kidnapping men against ransom developed quickly. The surprised attack of the Russian army in 1994 under the command of Boris Eltsine, the first president of the Russia post-Soviet, became, with more than 20.000 soldiers, the greatest military operation organized by Moscow since its intervention in Afghanistan in 1979. The battles between the Russian troops and Tchétchènes were particularly cruel: massive exactions by the federal troops on a side, and executions of Russian or Western hostages by Tchétchènes, other. Grozny east sometimes under the control of the Russians sometimes under that of the freedom fighters tchetchenes. Eltsine needed a fulgurating and victorious war to prove with its people that the Russia was still a super power and to thus sit his authority as commander for the presidential elections. But instead of a spectacular blitzkrieg , the war proved to be a military and humane failure for Russia which met a wild resistance combatants of different nationalities, armed to the teeth with heavy ammunition very last thing. In spite of a spectacular arsenal and a perfect knowledge of the ground (because it was about its own country charted in detail), the war embourba quickly, causing enormous human losses and material. Not being able to continue military operations of such a complexity, Russia agreed to throw sponge. An peace agreement was signed the August 31st 1996 with Khassa-Vyourt. This agreement led to a status quo leaving in Chetchnia (renamed " Islamic Republic of Itchkérie ") a governmental autonomy de facto in exchange of a promise of the carryforward of the talks on independence (the negotiations were pushed back until 2001) and of the stop of the operations of removals of men. The Charia was also issued. The new situation made it possible thereafter a minority to take the reins of the economy, but changed hardly the daily newspaper of the inhabitants.

Alternative points of view

For the Network Voltaire, the first war of Chetchnia is due to the Red Army personal ambition of former generals of the , which acted against the opinion of the population by declaring independence, relayed soon by terrorist war leaders acting without legitimacy.

Internal bonds

Second war of Chetchnia
Chetchnia (of additional lightings on the wars are available there)

External bonds

Summarized Russo-tchétchéne conflict
File of the conflict by the Express train
the first war of Chetchnia, a particular lighting of the conflict by Paul Labarique of [[Voltaire Network]] the

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