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Tuesday, January 16, 1996
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Troops assail Chechen rebels
The Associated Press
PERVOMAYSKAYA, Russia — Russian forces stormed a southern village with artillery, mortar and helicopter gunships yesterday, setting it on fire after Chechen rebels reportedly killed some of the hostages they have held for six days.
SOURCES:Ehcyclopaedia Britannica, news reports
Estimated to number between 150 and 250, the fighters had been guarding the hostages in a school, mosque and private homes.
A rocket destroyed a school in Pervomayskaya where some of about 100 captives were held. White flashes split the skies of the village, and thick smoke poured from buildings.
Russian authorities said troops killed 60 rebels, captured others and freed nine captives in fighting that continued into the night.
Various reports put the number of hostages between 70 and 120, including women and children. Anatoly Zinevich, duty officer of the Interior Ministry in Moscow, said that nine hostages were freed and that 60 rebels and two Russian troops were killed.
There was no word on the fate of the other hostages.
Events in the current standoff between Chechen rebels and Russian troops, which has dealt an unpleasant blow to President Boris Yeltsin.
There were no other details.
The assault took place on the sixth day of the standoff in Pervomayskaya, a tiny village on bleak fields of the republic of Dagestan, less than a mile from Chechnya.
"We want the terrorists punished and wiped out," President Boris Yeltsin was quoted as telling the ITAR-Tass news agency.
The rebels, who seized the hostages to dramatize their demand for a Russian troop withdrawal from their breakaway republic, denied killing any hostages.
Gunfire crackled and explosions could be heard when the attack began at 9 a.m. Helicopter gunships fired rockets at the village, and artillery and mortar shells thundered.
Deepening Chechen crisis
News reports said that there was intense hand-to-hand fighting inside the village and that the Russians had encountered fierce resistance from the rebels.
After months of inactivity while he recovered from heart trouble, Yelisiu's direct involvement in the hostage crisis appears to show he is back in command. But the attack could backfire politically if many of the hostages perish and damage his chances of winning a second term if he runs for re-election in June.
In the Chechen capital, Grozny, an explosion rocked a movie theater yesterday and rebel fighters tried to attack various official buildings. All traffic was banned, apparently to minimize rebel actions.
Gen. Mikhail Barsukov, head of the Federal Security Service, made contact with the rebels in Pervomayskaya at 8:50 a.m. and gave them 10 minutes to come out waving white flags or face attack, Maj. Gen. Alexander Mikhailov told reporters.
The rebels did not appear, and at 9 a.m. the Russians began the assault. By midday, government forces were in the village and there were reports of hand-to-hand fighting.
About Dagestan
The hostages seized by the rebels are Dagestanis, who fear their region may be drawn into the fray.
People: 1.8 million; 30 ethnic groups; mostly Muslim, as are
Largest group: Avars (50%)
Major resources: Oil, natural gas
In a statement, Barsukov said the rebels started killing hostages on Sunday.
The captives killed on Sunday were two Interior Ministry troops, Mikhailov said. The ITAR-Tass news agency, quoting unidentified security sources, said the rebels shot six more Interior Ministry troops yesterday morning. Another report said the rebels also killed six Dagestani elders who tried to organize talks.
Alexander Zdanovich, deputy representative of the security service, told ITAR-Tass the attack was inevitable because of the interception of rebel radio communication ordering hostages killed.
Mussolini. Robbers start killing hostages. Early Monday morning, Russian troops attack rebels using artillery and helicopter gunships in attempt to free hostages.
"On the 14th of January at 4 p.m. the terrorists opened fire on federal troops and began to kill hostages. Because the federal powers cannot put up with this illegal act any longer they have been obliged to resort to the use of force to free the hostages," the statement read.
Tuesday: Rebels take up to 3,000 hostages in Kiziyar, Dagestan; 25 people die.
A rebel representativ, Movladi Udugov, denied the rebels had killed any captives, the Interfax news agency reported.
The reports that hostages were killed could not be verified independently.
Wednesday: Rebels free most hostages, take 160 on convoy to Chechnya. Convoy stays on border at village of Pervomayskaya.
Wednesday to Sunday: Russians mass forces with armored personnel carriers, howitzers, hellcopter gunships around village. Reba gets some hostages.
Sunday. Russian government
avoids deadline, giving rebels
another day to release hostages.
Applications reported.
Russian authorities said on Sunday that the rebels had been given the night to think about the situation.
The Russians insisted the rebels free the hostages and give up their arms, while the rebels stood firm on demanding a guarantee of safe passage home.
The rebels had seized up to 3,000 hostages on Jan. 9 in the Dagestani town of Kizlyar; at least 40 people were killed in fighting. The gunmen soon released most hostages and headed for Chechnya in buses, but Russian forces had stopped them at Pervomayskaya on Wednesday.
Knight-Ridder Tribune
One woman from Pervonayskaya yesterday looked on in anguish as Russian forces blasted her village.
"I spent 30 years building our home — our cattle, our clothes, and
Preparing for a possible assault, the Russians had set up a field hospital on Sunday in the snowy fields near the village.
everything is there," said Suaybat Aliyaea, a 45-year-old nurse.
Barsukov and Interior Minister Anatoly Kulikov arrived in Dagestan from Moscow on Sunday. Their arrival marked the most direct participation yet by the Kremlin, which had let Dagestani officials negotiate with the gunmen.
Magomedali Magomedov, the leader of Dagestan, telephoned Yeitsin on Sunday night to plead with the Russian leader not to use force.
Moscow sent troops into Chechnya in December 1994 to put down its three-year drive for independence. Up to 30,000 people have died.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Former President George Bush said he underestimated Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's political staying power after the Persian Gulf War and regrets that the allies didn't do more to undercut Saddam's authority.
In an interview Sunday with David Erost on PBS, Bush said he thought Saddam would be overthrown by his own people.
Bush reiterated his view that it would have been a mistake to order the U.S. military to hunt down Saddam in Baghdad, Iraq, and that it was good judgment to end the war after having evicted Iraq's army from Kuwait.
But in the interview taper Dec. 12 in his Houston office, Bush said
so long as they were not near U.S. forces. Hussein used that air power, combined heavy ground armor that survived the war, to kill thousands.
He added that summoning Hus-
Asked by Frost whether Hussein should have been required to surrender at the Safwan meeting to deepen his humiliation and undercut his authority, Bush responded first by saying, "I think maybe in retrospect we could have done more."
George Bush Former U.S. president
that Hussein fooled him when he used his surviving military power to quickly crush postwar revolts by Kurds in northern Iraq and by Shilies in the south.
At that meeting, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, the commander of the U.S.-led coalition in the Gulf War, agreed to an Iraqi request that it be permitted to fly armed helicopters anywhere inside Iraq
While expressing no regret at his decision to end the war with a cease-fire 100 hours after the ground war was launched, Bush said he now thinks mistakes were made in the armistice meeting held March 3 at Safwan, Iraq.
sein to S a f w a n m might have backfire if the Iraqi leader had resisted and forced U.S. troops to march to Baghdad to grab him.
"And there we would be ... involved in an urban guerrilla war," Bush said.
"This is not a formula that I wanted to contemplate."
and I think history will say we did the right thing."
In an interview with Frost taped on March 9,1991, but not aired until Sunday's broadcast, Bush discussed excepts from his Gulf War diary.
In the December interview with Frost, Bush alluded to the more satisfying ending of World War II when Japan's leaders boarded the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo harbor and signed the surrender papers.
"Imperialism ended right there with the laying of a sword on a desk, and the whole world saw it," Bush said.
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