Monday, June 4, 2007

The second war

This is a 9P140 Uragan rocket launcher in use during the second chechnya war.



In 1999 the wars started again until 2003 when the Chechnya signed a constitution stating that they were part of Russia. It started when Russia went into the Chechen mountains to find refugees that were hiding out, but what they really wanted was to get revenge against their embarassing defeat three years before.


Currently, in 2007, the contries have taken a break from war and added the right to elect a president to the Chechnya constitution. But the Chechens have stooped to the level of using violence to gain their freedom. This violence includes Terrorism attacks on Moscow, which 300 people were killed in a movie theatre, and in a hospital where there were 100 killed. The killing still goes on even if the war has stopped.
Olivia P.

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