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Butchery In Chechnya In the run up to the presidential elections, a war in Chechnya is a useful distraction from the economic chaos and corruption of daily life in Russia. Article from Black Flag #219 (2000). Overseeing the aerial bombardment of Yugoslavia, Tony Blair justified NATO S actions in the name of a new internationalism where the brutal repression of whole ethnic groups will no longer be tolerated. Those of us who condemned this military humanism (as Noam Chomsky has dryly termed it) as the same old imperialism in post-Cold War guise were denounced by the state department socialists of today. The slaughter of thousands of Chechens by a resurgent Russian military, though, has roused neither the ire of the NATO internationalists nor their humanitarian cheerleaders. Beyond token condemnation of the excesses of the Russian military, the butchery in the Caucasus has become an internal matter for Yeltsin, Putin and their generals to deal with as they ....