Saturday, March 22, 2008

Which Caucasus are you talking about?


Reading an article in the Repubblica I remembered that in the Caucasus they are fighting forgotten separatist wars: Cecenia, Inguscezia, Daghestan, Ossetia, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and perhaps others that I do not know of.

Very forgotten wars. In fact, anyone who wants to report the facts and perhaps say a point of view other than government's risks his life. That is why we know little about these unfortunate people, except maybe that they are Russians (even if they have neither Russian language nor religion, nor history, nor genetics, nor especially the sentiments).

I challenge anyone to explain simply exactly what happened in these places in the last two years. Whoever can, he/she wins a complete smiling thanks from me and from the world of blogs and free thinking.

Bruno Picozzi (in translation)

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