Crisis in Oekraïne #50

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Russia ships troops into Ukraine, repeats invasion threat

(Reuters) - Russia shipped more troops and armor into Crimea on Friday and repeated its threat to invade other parts of Ukraine, showing no sign of listening to Western pleas to back off from the worst confrontation since the Cold War.

Russia's stock markets tumbled and the cost of insuring its debt soared on the last day of trading before pro-Moscow authorities in Crimea hold a vote to join Russia, a move all but certain to lead to U.S. and EU sanctions on Monday.

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Op vrijdag 14 maart 2014 13:26 schreef SuicideErrorist het volgende:

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Het lijkt wel alsof Rusland heel erg graag de Derde Wereldoorlog in gang wil zetten.

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saskiadekkers twitterde op vrijdag 14-03-2014 om 13:43:21 “@sanwaldinjo: Moving tanks Omsk, Saratov, photos popping up. Expect full-scale intervention beyond #Crimea http://t.co/P8Eqk7qTeI” reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 14 maart 2014 13:50 schreef Jor_Dii het volgende:

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saskiadekkers twitterde op vrijdag 14-03-2014 om 13:43:21 “@sanwaldinjo: Moving tanks Omsk, Saratov, photos popping up. Expect full-scale intervention beyond #Crimea http://t.co/P8Eqk7qTeI”; reageer retweet

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<sub>The 1991–1992 South Ossetian War (Also known as the 1st South Ossetia war) was fought as part of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict between Georgian government forces and ethnic Georgian militia on one side and the forces of South Ossetia and ethnic Ossetian militia who wanted South Ossetia to secede from Georgia and become an independent state, supported by individual Russian troops, on the other. The war ended with a Russian-brokered ceasefire, signed on 24 June 1992, which established a joint peacekeeping force and left South Ossetia divided between the rivaling authorities.

The Georgian Civil War comprised inter-ethnic and intranational conflicts in the regions of South Ossetia (1988–1992) and Abkhazia (1992–1993), as well as the violent military coup d'etat of December 22, 1991 - December 31, 1993, against the first democratically elected President of Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia and his subsequent uprising in an attempt to regain power (1993).

While the Gamsakhurdia rebellion was eventually defeated, the South Ossetia and Abkhazia conflicts resulted in the de facto secession of both regions from Georgia. As a result, both conflicts have lingered on, with occasional flare-ups.

The War of Transnistria was a limited conflict that broke out in November 1990 at Dubăsari (Russian: Дубоссáры, Dubossary) between pro-Transnistria forces, including the Transnistrian Republican Guard, militia and Cossack units, and supported by elements of the Russian 14th army, and pro-Moldovan forces, including Moldovan troops and police. Fighting intensified on 1 March 1992 and, alternating with ad hoc ceasefires, lasted throughout the spring and early summer of 1992 until a ceasefire was declared on 21 July 1992, which has held. The conflict remained unresolved but in 2011 talks were held under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) with Lithuania holding the rotating chairmanship.[10]

The East Prigorodny Conflict was an inter-ethnic conflict in the eastern part of the Prigorodny district in the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, which started in 1989 and developed, in 1992, into a brief ethnic war between local Ingush and Ossetian paramilitary forces.

According to Helsinki Human Rights Watch, Ossetian militia orchestrated a campaign of ethnic cleansing during October and November 1992, resulting in the death of more than 600 Ingush civilians and expulsion of approximately 60,000 Ingush inhabitants from Prigorodny district.[2]

The War in Abkhazia from 1992 to 1993 was waged chiefly between Georgian government forces on one side and Abkhaz separatist forces supporting independence of Abkhazia from Georgia, Russian armed forces and North Caucasian hired fighters on the other side. Ethnic Georgians who lived in Abkhazia fought largely on the side of Georgian government forces. Ethnic Armenians and Russians[9] within Abkhazia's population largely supported Abkhazians,[10][11][12] and many fought on their side. The separatists were supported by thousands of the North Caucasus and Cossack militants and by the Russian Federation forces stationed in and near Abkhazia.[1][2]

Handling of this conflict was aggravated by the civil strife in Georgia proper between the supporters of the ousted Georgian president, Zviad Gamsakhurdia and the post-coup government headed by Eduard Shevardnadze, as well as the Georgian–Ossetian conflict.

Significant human rights violations and atrocities were reported on all sides and peaked in the aftermath of the Abkhaz capture of Sukhumi on 27 September 1993, which was followed by a large-scale campaign of ethnic cleansing against ethnic Georgian population according to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.[13] The UN SG’s fact-finding mission reported numerous and serious human rights violations committed by both Abkhazians and Georgians.[14] From 13,000 to 20,000 ethnic Georgians and approximately 3,000 Abkhaz have been reported to be killed, more than 250,000 Georgians became internally displaced or refugees and 2,000 are considered missing.

The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1 March (formalized 6 April) 1992[8][9][10][11] and 14 December 1995. The war involved several factions. The main belligerents were the forces of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and those of the self-proclaimed Bosnian Serb and Bosnian Croat entities within Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska and Herzeg-Bosnia, who were led and supplied by Serbia and Croatia respectively.[12][13][14]

The war came about as a result of the breakup of Yugoslavia. Following the Slovenian and Croatian secessions from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991, the multi-ethnic Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was inhabited by Muslim Bosniaks (44 percent), Orthodox Serbs (31 percent) and Catholic Croats (17 percent), passed a referendum for independence on 29 February 1992. This was rejected by the political representatives of the Bosnian Serbs, who had boycotted the referendum and established their own republic. Following Bosnia and Herzegovina's declaration of independence (which had gained international recognition), the Bosnian Serbs, supported by the Serbian government of Slobodan Milo¨ević and the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), mobilized their forces inside the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to secure Serbian territory, then war soon broke out across the country, accompanied by the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Bosniak and Croat population, especially in eastern Bosnia and throughout the Republika Srpska.[15]

The 1993 Cherbourg incident were a series of maritime incidents which took place from 26 March to 2 April 1993 between the British Royal Navy and French fishermen as a result of a fishing rights dispute in and around the Channel Islands waters.

The Albanian Rebellion of 1997, also known as the Albanian Unrest of 1997 (Albanian: Rebelimi i vitit 1997), or the Pyramid Crisis or improperly known as the Albanian Anarchy of 1997,[5] was an uprising sparked by Ponzi scheme failures. Albania descended into civil disorders and violence in which the government was toppled and 2,000 people were killed.[6][7]

By January 1997, the inevitable end came, and the people of Albania, who had lost $1.2 billion (out of a small population of three million), took their protest to the streets.[8] Beginning in February, thousands of citizens launched daily protests demanding reimbursement by the government, which they believed was profiting from the schemes. On 1 March, Prime Minister Aleksandër Meksi resigned and on 2 March, President Sali Berisha declared a state of emergency.[8] On 11 March, the Socialist Party of Albania won a major victory when their leader Bashkim Fino was appointed prime minister. However, the transfer of power did not halt the unrest, as protests spread to northern Albania. Although the government quelled revolts in the north, the ability of the government and military to maintain order began to collapse, especially in the southern half of Albania, which fell under the control of rebels and Socialist forces.[8]

All major population centers were engulfed in demonstrations by 13 March and foreign countries began to evacuate their citizens from Albania.[8] These evacuations included Operation Libelle and Operation Silver Wake. The United Nations Security Council, in Resolution 1101, authorized a force of 7,000 on 28 March to direct relief efforts and to restore order to Albania. The UN feared the unrest would spread outside Albania's borders and contribute to even more refugees throughout Europe. On 15 April, the 7,000 troops launched Operation Sunrise, an Italian-led mission which helped restore rule of law to the country.[8] After the unrest, over 25 000 guns were transported to Kosovo and the guerrilla forces of the ethnic Albanian, Kosovo Liberation Army received considerable amounts of armaments .[9]

The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian rebel group known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) with air support from NATO.

The KLA, formed in 1991,[68] initiated its first campaign in 1995 when it launched attacks targeting Serbian law enforcement in Kosovo, and in June 1996 the group claimed responsibility for acts of sabotage targeting Kosovo police stations. In 1997, the organization acquired a large amount of arms through weapons smuggling from Albania, following a rebellion which saw large numbers of weapons looted from the country's police and army posts. It was regarded by the United States, the United Kingdom and France as a terrorist group until 1998, when it was de-listed without explanation.[69] In 1998, KLA attacks targeting Yugoslav authorities in Kosovo resulted in an increased presence of Serb paramilitaries and regular forces who subsequently began pursuing a campaign of retribution targeting KLA sympathizers and political opponents[70] in a drive which left 1,500 to 2,000 KLA combatants and civilians dead[71] and led to the plight of hundreds of thousands of refugees.[72] After attempts at a diplomatic solution failed, NATO intervened billing the campaign in Kosovo as a "humanitarian war",[73] while Yugoslav forces continued to fight during the two month-long aerial bombardment of Yugoslavia.[74] Despite initial claims that hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanians were killed, subsequent investigations have recovered the remains of less than three thousand victims,[75] and in 2001 a United Nations court found that although there had been a "a systematic campaign of terror, including murders, rapes, arsons and severe maltreatments", Serb troops had not committed genocide in the region, because the intent was to remove rather than eradicate the Albanian population.[76]

The War in Abkhazia in 1998 took place in the Gali district of Abkhazia, after ethnic Georgians launched an insurgency against the Abkhazian secessionist government. The conflict is sometimes referred to as the Six-Day War of Abkhazia however this name only takes into account the Abkhazian May 20, 1998 - May 26, 1998 offensive while hostilities and insurgent attacks had already occurred before that date.[4][3]

The Invasion of Dagestan,[6] also known as the War in Dagestan[7] and Dagestan War,[8] began, when the Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade (IIB), an Islamist militia, led by warlords Shamil Basayev and Ibn al-Khattab, invaded the neighbouring Russian republic of Dagestan on August 2, 1999, in support of the Shura of Dagestan separatist rebels. The war ended with a major Russian victory and the retreat of the IIB. The Invasion of Dagestan served as the Casus belli for the Second Chechen War.

The Insurgency in the Pre¨evo Valley was an armed conflict between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the ethnic-Albanian insurgents[11][12][13] of the Liberation Army of Pre¨evo, Medveđa and Bujanovac (UÇPMB).[14] There were instances during the conflict in which the Yugoslav government requested KFOR support in suppressing UÇPMB attacks since they could only use lightly armed military forces as part of the Kumanovo Treaty that ended the Kosovo War, which created a buffer zone so that the bulk of Yugoslav armed forces could not enter.</sub>

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Op vrijdag 14 maart 2014 13:52 schreef JimmyJames het volgende:

Russian Roulette: The Invasion of Ukraine (Dispatch Eight)

In dit filmpje zijn het toch de pro-Russen die de Oekraïners belagen?

vanaf 1:36

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Russia Is Preparing to Invade East Ukraine, Estonia Says
By Ott Ummelas Mar 14, 2014 1:32 PM GMT+0100

Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to “invade eastern Ukraine” after occupying the country’s Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, Estonia said.

Russia warned that Ukraine’s government has lost control of the country today, fueling concern the Kremlin may extend a military intervention as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called for it to halt a takeover of the disputed province.

Events in Ukraine “clearly show that the Russian Federation only accepts force,” Estonian Defense Minister Urmas Reinsalu said in an e-mailed statement today. To deter Putin, “a clear message needs to be sent that an attack will cost the aggressor dearly.”

In the biggest dispute between Russia and the West since the fall of the Iron Curtain, the standoff is shaking markets and threatening to upset more than two decades of economic and diplomatic integration between former Cold War enemies. It’s also raising the risk that a lasting geographical conflict zone may emerge between Russia and the European Union.

To contact Bloomberg News staff for this story: Ott Ummelas in Kiev at oummelas@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: James M. Gomez at jagomez@bloomberg.net Michael Winfrey, Paul Abelsky

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Op vrijdag 14 maart 2014 13:50 schreef Jor_Dii het volgende:

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saskiadekkers twitterde op vrijdag 14-03-2014 om 13:43:21 “@sanwaldinjo: Moving tanks Omsk, Saratov, photos popping up. Expect full-scale intervention beyond #Crimea http://t.co/P8Eqk7qTeI&rdquo; reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 14 maart 2014 13:54 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Ongelofelijk...Poetin plant een weekend-uitje?

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<sub>The insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia was an armed conflict which began when the ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA) militant group began attacking the security forces of the Republic of Macedonia at the beginning of February 2001, and ended with the Ohrid Agreement. The goal of the NLA was to give greater rights and autonomy to the country's Albanian minority, who make up 25.2% of the population.[14][15][16] There were also claims that the group ultimately wished to see Albanian-majority areas secede from the country,[17] though high-ranking NLA members have denied this.[14] The conflict lasted throughout most of the year, although overall casualties remained limited to several dozen for either side, according to the sources from both of the sides in the conflict.

Violent unrest in Kosovo[a] broke out on 17 March 2004. Kosovo Albanians, numbering over 50,000,[6] took part in widescale attacks on the Serbian people, compared by the then Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Ko¨tunica to ethnic cleansing[1] It was the largest violent incident in the province since the Kosovo War of 1998-99. During the unrest, 19 civilians were killed (8 ethnic Serbs and 11 ethnic Albanians), over 4,000 Serbs were forced to leave their homes, 935 Serb houses, 10 public facilities (schools, health care centers and post offices) and 35 Serbian Orthodox church-buildings were desecrated, damaged or destroyed, and six towns and nine villages were ethnically cleansed according to Serbian media[3][7][8]
The events were also called "Kristallnacht of Kosovo"[9] and in Serbia "March Pogrom".

The Adjara crisis refers to a political crisis in Georgia’s Adjaran Autonomous Republic, then led by Aslan Abashidze, who refused to obey the central authorities after President Eduard Shevardnadze’s ousting during the Rose Revolution of November 2003. The crisis threatened to develop into military confrontation as both sides mobilized their forces at the internal border. However, Georgia’s post-revolutionary government of President Mikheil Saakashvili managed to avoid bloodshed and with the help of Adjaran opposition reasserted its supremacy. Abashidze left the region in exile in May 2004 and was succeeded by Levan Varshalomidze.

The 2006 Kodori crisis erupted in late July 2006 in Abkhazia's Kodori Gorge, when a local militia leader declared his opposition to the Government of Georgia, which sent police forces to disarm the rebels. The upper part of the Kodori Gorge was at that time the only portion of Abkhazia, Georgia's breakaway republic, not controlled by the Abkhaz authorities.

The War in Ingushetia began in 2007 as an escalation of an insurgency in Ingushetia connected to the separatist conflict in Chechnya. The conflict has been described as a civil war by local human rights activists and opposition politicians;[2] others have referred to it as an uprising.[3] By mid-2009 Ingushetia had surpassed Chechnya as the most violent of the North Caucasus republics.[4]

The 2008 unrest in Kosovo follows Kosovo's declaration of independence on February 17, 2008. Some Kosovo Serbs opposed to secession have boycotted the move by refusing to follow orders from the central government in Pristina and attempting to seize infrastructure and border posts in Serb-populated regions. There have also been sporadic instances of violence against international institutions and governmental institutions, predominantly in North Kosovo.

Tensions in the North intensified when Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica seized a UN courthouse on March 14, 2008. UN police and NATO forces responded on March 17, and attacks by Serb protesters left one UN police officer dead and as many as 150 people wounded.[1] On June 28, Kosovan Serbs formed the Community Assembly of Kosovo and Metohija to coordinate resistance to the Kosovan government.

The Russo-Georgian War (also known as the 2008 South Ossetia War, Five-Day War or August War) was an armed conflict in August 2008 between Georgia on one side, and Russia and the separatist South Ossetia and Abkhazia on the other.

The 1991–92 South Ossetia War between ethnic Georgians and Ossetians had left slightly more than a half of South Ossetia under de facto control of a Russian-backed, internationally unrecognised government.[51][52] Most ethnic Georgian parts of South Ossetia remained under the control of Georgia (Akhalgori district, and most villages surrounding Tskhinvali), with Georgian, North Ossetian and Russian Joint peacekeeping force present in the territories. A similar situation existed in Abkhazia after the War in Abkhazia (1992–93). Increasing tensions escalated during the summer months of 2008. On 5 August, a Russian spokesman said Russia would defend Russian citizens in South Ossetia if they were attacked.[53] ...

The insurgency in the North Caucasus continues, despite the official end of the decade-long Second Chechen War on 16 April 2009.[6] The violence is mostly concentrated in the North Caucasus republics of Chechnya, Dagestan,[7] Ingushetia,[8] Kabardino-Balkaria and North Ossetia–Alania, with only occasional incidents elsewhere, like at last Pyatigorsk and Volgograd.

Clashes between ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo and the partially recognised Republic of Kosovo[a] began on 25 July 2011 when the Kosovo Police crossed into the Serb-controlled municipalities of North Kosovo, in an attempt to control several administrative border crossings without the consultation of either Serbia or KFOR/EULEX.[2][7] Though tensions between the two sides eased somewhat after the intervention of NATO's KFOR forces, they continued to remain high amid concern from the EU, who also blamed Kosovo for the unilateral provocation.[8]</sub>

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Op vrijdag 14 maart 2014 14:08 schreef meth1745 het volgende:
Conflicten Europa 2001 - nu

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Op vrijdag 14 maart 2014 14:11 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Interessant Meth... Wat is de bron?

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Op vrijdag 14 maart 2014 13:50 schreef Jor_Dii het volgende:

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saskiadekkers twitterde op vrijdag 14-03-2014 om 13:43:21 “@sanwaldinjo: Moving tanks Omsk, Saratov, photos popping up. Expect full-scale intervention beyond #Crimea http://t.co/P8Eqk7qTeI&rdquo; reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 14 maart 2014 14:16 schreef Voszje het volgende:

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Saratov oké, maar waarom Omsk? Dat is zo'n 3000 km van Oekraïne.

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Op vrijdag 14 maart 2014 14:19 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Drs. P zei het al: Omsk is ver weg inderdaad ( I know, maar het is vrijdagmiddag). Serieus: aanvoeren van reserves? Voorwaardescheppend schuiven met materieel?

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Op vrijdag 14 maart 2014 13:58 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Jazeker... en niet zo zuinig... Maar laat het maar aan RT over om daar een pro-Russische spin aan te geven. Het argument van de Russen is ook sec dat Kiev de zaak niet onder controle heeft..dus dan maakt het niet eens meer uit wie wie neersteekt...

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Op vrijdag 14 maart 2014 14:21 schreef Voszje het volgende:

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Dodenrit.

Tja, ik heb werkelijk geen idee waarom Omsk. Het zou best kunnen wat je zegt.

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Op vrijdag 14 maart 2014 14:25 schreef Perrin het volgende:
Is Omsk - gezien de ligging - geen belangrijke verbindingsplaats tussen Oost- en West-Rusland?

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