Janvier Chouteu-Chando is the author of THE UNION MOUJIK
With the dissolution of the USSR during what its proponents called the Belavezha Accords(called the Belavezha putsch by those who rue the collapse of the USSR) when the presidents of the three brotherly Eastern Slavic Republics---Russia, White Russia (Belorussia or Belarus), and Ukraine (Little Russia) that were the initial constituent republics of the USSR when it was founded in 1922, signed an agreement on a loose confederation and declared that the USSR had ceased to exist, the president of Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR) Boris Yeltsin declared to the different political divisions within the RFSSR (Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics---ASSR, Oblasts---provinces, and Krays--Regions, and Okrugs---Districts) to bite as much autonomy from the Russian SFSR as they could chew.
Chechnya went further and declared its independence in 1991 and the secessionists managed to seize control of Chechnya from the now newly-independent and chaotic Russia. Chechen infighting gave the Russian Federal government an excuse to reassert federal control by invading Chechnya in 1994. One of Chechnya's brilliant generals Aslan Maskhadov fought the Russian army to a standstill, whence a peace agreement (The Khasav-Yurt Accord) was concluded in 1996, outlining a path towards Chechnya's self-rule that would not be up for revision until 2001, and which allowed the Federal forces to withdraw from Chechnya.
Chaos set in as Maskhadov(now the Chechen president) could not rein in the radical elements within the secessionists who were backed by the rich Arab countries and their Wahhabist version of Islam. Kidnapping for ransom became the highest source of revenue in the Chechen Republic as they terrorized the North Caucasus. However, it wasn't until in 1999, when the radical Chechens led by the notorious Basayev invaded the Muslim Russian Republic of Dagestan in his attempt to create a Caliphate in the North Caucasus, that Russia under the alcoholic and decrepit Boris Yeltsin who had just chosen the energic Vladimir Putin as his new Prime Minister, decided to put an end to the Chechen debacle. Russia invaded Chechnya again.
Chechnya's mufti Akhmad Kadyrov realized shortly after that Chechnya could not win and that the people would be doomed staying on the path of Wahhabism. He struck a deal with Putin, now the new Russian president in 2000 and Chechnya fell under Russian rule with greater autonomy than it had in 1991. His opponents assassinated him, but today, his son Ramzan and successor reigns in a rebuilt war-ravaged Chechnya that is prosperous and whose autonomous powers are the widest in all the constituent republics, oblasts(provinces), and territories (krais) in Russia. He thinks the brief internecine conflict among Chechens was a small price to pay for the current peace and stability in the Chechen Republic today. Chechnya now sends peacekeepers to Syria as a detachment from Russia. Today, it is as if no one remembers the fact that Chechnya was synonymous with kidnapping and ransoming hardly twenty years ago.
Ukraine that seemed not to have learned and allowed itself to become a victim of geopolitics, has not recovered economically to what it was in 1991 and got itself into the mess of an internal armed conflict.
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In Cameroon, there is a lot the Biya regime and the secessionists can learn from Chechnya's and Ukraine's political evolution over the past three decades. The overriding lesson is that the people come first. Alas, it has become obvious that only the Union-Nationalists, Cameroon's civic-nationalists that have been hounded for more than six decades by France and the puppets it put in power in this African nation, can bring peace and fix this country that the world considers as the microcosm of Africa or Africa in miniature.
With the dissolution of the USSR during what its proponents called the Belavezha Accords(called the Belavezha putsch by those who rue the collapse of the USSR) when the presidents of the three brotherly Eastern Slavic Republics---Russia, White Russia (Belorussia or Belarus), and Ukraine (Little Russia) that were the initial constituent republics of the USSR when it was founded in 1922, signed an agreement on a loose confederation and declared that the USSR had ceased to exist, the president of Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR) Boris Yeltsin declared to the different political divisions within the RFSSR (Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics---ASSR, Oblasts---provinces, and Krays--Regions, and Okrugs---Districts) to bite as much autonomy from the Russian SFSR as they could chew.
Chechnya went further and declared its independence in 1991 and the secessionists managed to seize control of Chechnya from the now newly-independent and chaotic Russia. Chechen infighting gave the Russian Federal government an excuse to reassert federal control by invading Chechnya in 1994. One of Chechnya's brilliant generals Aslan Maskhadov fought the Russian army to a standstill, whence a peace agreement (The Khasav-Yurt Accord) was concluded in 1996, outlining a path towards Chechnya's self-rule that would not be up for revision until 2001, and which allowed the Federal forces to withdraw from Chechnya.
Chaos set in as Maskhadov(now the Chechen president) could not rein in the radical elements within the secessionists who were backed by the rich Arab countries and their Wahhabist version of Islam. Kidnapping for ransom became the highest source of revenue in the Chechen Republic as they terrorized the North Caucasus. However, it wasn't until in 1999, when the radical Chechens led by the notorious Basayev invaded the Muslim Russian Republic of Dagestan in his attempt to create a Caliphate in the North Caucasus, that Russia under the alcoholic and decrepit Boris Yeltsin who had just chosen the energic Vladimir Putin as his new Prime Minister, decided to put an end to the Chechen debacle. Russia invaded Chechnya again.
Chechnya's mufti Akhmad Kadyrov realized shortly after that Chechnya could not win and that the people would be doomed staying on the path of Wahhabism. He struck a deal with Putin, now the new Russian president in 2000 and Chechnya fell under Russian rule with greater autonomy than it had in 1991. His opponents assassinated him, but today, his son Ramzan and successor reigns in a rebuilt war-ravaged Chechnya that is prosperous and whose autonomous powers are the widest in all the constituent republics, oblasts(provinces), and territories (krais) in Russia. He thinks the brief internecine conflict among Chechens was a small price to pay for the current peace and stability in the Chechen Republic today. Chechnya now sends peacekeepers to Syria as a detachment from Russia. Today, it is as if no one remembers the fact that Chechnya was synonymous with kidnapping and ransoming hardly twenty years ago.
Ukraine that seemed not to have learned and allowed itself to become a victim of geopolitics, has not recovered economically to what it was in 1991 and got itself into the mess of an internal armed conflict.
Major Languages Spoken in Ukraine:
- Русски= Russian
- Украинский=Ukrainian
- Суржик=Surzhik (Russian/Ukraine Creole)
In Cameroon, there is a lot the Biya regime and the secessionists can learn from Chechnya's and Ukraine's political evolution over the past three decades. The overriding lesson is that the people come first. Alas, it has become obvious that only the Union-Nationalists, Cameroon's civic-nationalists that have been hounded for more than six decades by France and the puppets it put in power in this African nation, can bring peace and fix this country that the world considers as the microcosm of Africa or Africa in miniature.
Janvier Tchouteu, author of “FALLEN HEROES: African Leaders Whose Assassinations Disarrayed the Continent and Benefitted Foreign Interests”
https://amazon.com/dp/1980996695/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_JX6Q26H573RSKG7HT9V6
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