Mass Death

Ninety-one militants eliminated in Nalchik – minister
NALCHIK. Oct 14
(Interfax) – Ninety-one militants have been eliminated during a special
operation in Nalchik, according to recent reports from Kabardino-Balkarian law
enforcement agencies.
“We continue to revise the number of eliminated
militants. which currently stands at 91. Another 36 militants have been detained
on suspicion of involvement in the attack. Charges have already been presented
to nine of them,” Kabardino-Balkarian Interior Minister Khachim Shogenov told
Interfax on Friday.

Mass death, once more, claims the lives of Adiga and Chechen people in Nalchik, the Caucasus.
I search for adequate words to vent out this suppressed anger and sadness within me, and I find none. I am grieved and in mourning. The sight of my mother, upon her reception of the news via TV, touched me so that I almost cried. Those murdered are her kinsfolk and mine. They’re your kinsfolk too, since we are all variations of the same seed. I came to know some good people from Nalchik, the thought of the possibility that they are now no more saddens me profoundly.

I believe in peace, but I also am convinced that people often take the wrong steps towards it. Chechens want independence, like Adigas before them, and Russia does not want to give it to them. I just wish there was a simple way to solve this, to end this war, but it seems as though there really isn’t one.

Perhaps Russia is counting on a sudden evacuation of Chechnya. An exodus mimicking that of the Adiga population forced to depart more than a hundred years ago. It is always unjust, regardless of the race or religion of the individual in question, to have to flee one’s country because of oppression or war.
It is time this bloodshed halts, it leads nowhere.