In a televised address to the Chechen people, Aslan Maskhadov announced that Chechen armed forces will abandon their current tactics of partisan warfare and launch broad-scale military operations aimed at forcing the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya, chechenpress.com reported on 20 September. At the same time, Maskhadov appealed to the international community to help bring about a cessation of hostilities and resolve the conflict peacefully.
He declares large-scale military operations, and appeals to the "international community" to help stop it? Is it just me, or does that not make any sense? On the bright side, "large scale military operations" implies a massing of forces which should allow the Russers to kill all of them, leaving the world a better place. |