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"Mr President, we are naturally horrified at the barbarity of the Russian intervention in Chechnya, horrified to see how Boris Yeltsin and his clique have been able to use these massacres to make people forget the poverty into which their policies have plunged the Russian people. Murders in Chechnya are bringing in the votes in Moscow.
But our outrage cannot stop there. How are we to comprehend the complicit passiveness of the Western powers who see themselves as the champions of situations of humanitarian and military emergency and who had no hesitation in bombing Iraq and former Yugoslavia? Today, these powers are quietly cultivating the alcohol-fuelled Mafiosi cliques that run Russia. Let us remember the enthusiastic speeches by the American and European leaders singing the praises of Boris Yeltsin. By showing solidarity with the Russian government, they have favoured the re-establishment of the laws of the market, regardless of the defence of the rights of the people.
Let us put an end to this shameful hypocrisy and demand the immediate withdrawal of Russian troops and the Chechen people’s right to self-determination, that is, to independence."@en1
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