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Russians went in heavy-handed, lots of hostages died.seektravelinfo wrote: siege of the school in Beslan
Handful of dead after a tense protest situation escalated and 60 or so years after the facts, it still gets touted as an example of government power running amuck/amok.Kent State
seektravelinfo wrote:Do you all remember the terrorist events in Russia that happened in the aughts?
The theater siege in Moscow (2002 I think) when Chechen separatists held hostages for days with Black Widows scattered around the room wearing suicide vests, and the Russian response was to pipe gas into building to put everyone to sleep, and once help arrived they evacuated citizens onto school buses instead of ambulances, where quite a few of them died from effects of the gas.
Then, in 2004, the extremely cruel and vicious siege of the school in Beslan took place. Government response was pitifully weak and slow in arriving. Townspeople were trying to descend on the school armed with what they had: Axes, shovels, hammers, rakes. Putin could hardly be bothered. He treated it as a public relations issue and was more interested in spin than he was in saving the lives of those children.
Putin hates democracy with its checks and balances, thus he fails in developing robust anti-terrorism plans, measures and actions, which require strong collaboration amongst law enforcement (and military when called for). <gotta be careful with that, the Kent State anniversary is coming up to commemorate that day in May when Governor Rhodes of Ohio ordered the National Guard to shoot Vietnam War protestors>.
But Putin, newly “re-elected” Putin, says that he and he alone decides what’s to be done and how to respond, while willfully ignoring the warnings of others who brief him of imminent threats. Instead, he spins, after the fact, like he is now by placing blame of the most recent carnage on Ukraine.
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