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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (65816)	12/7/1999 6:11:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) of 108807

Well, it's been suggested Maskhadov's family members were actually kidnapped, Lizzie. Could be. The Russians did that in their thirty-year-plus war to conquer the North Caucasus in the 19th century, which in large part was fought out on Chechen soil. In one great coup, the Russians captured the son of the Imam Shamil, and held him as a hostage for years. He was treated very well; brought up as a member of the Russian nobility, trained as a cadet in the Imperial Guards....When he was returned to Shamil, as the result of an elaborate hostage exchange, he soon faded away and died, the victim, observers said, of homesickness (for Russia!) and a broken heart... Lots and lots and lots of history behind the present conflict...

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