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On faraway provinces.
(From The Jakarta Post)
Time and again, the 19th century British commentator Lord Macaulay is proven right when he said words to the effect that faraway provinces are not worth the trouble of keeping them in line. Read Chechnya, read Aceh, read Tibet.
The Chechen question will continue to haunt for a long time to come, the more so if Vladimir Putin, once of the KGB, continues to believe that the only solution is military. Even as his special forces kill over 100 hostages in the Moscow theater drama with what the BBC suggested may have been the gas BZ, which is banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) to which Russia is a signatory, he proposes …
