ASSALAMMU'ALAIKUM WRTH,
Berikut dibawah adalah artikel bertajuk "Valiant
Chechens" mengenai perjuangan saudara-saudara Islam
kita di Chechen untuk kita renungkan bersama dan
mungkin akan tergerak dihati sebagai saudara Islam
untuk berbuat sesuatu, sekurang-kurangnya menghulurkan
derma kepada tabung perjuangan Mujahedeen Chechen yang
diuruskan oleh PAS dan ABIM.
Dan bagi kita semua yang berjuang untuk mendaulatkan
hukum-hukum Allah SWT dan menubuhkan kerajaan Islam di
Malaysia, bersedialah kita semua kerana apa yang
berlaku di Chechnya besar kemungkinannya boleh juga
menimpa kita semua. UMNO kini di ambang perpecahan dan
sudah pun ditolak dengan tegas dan muktammadnya oleh
lebih 85 peratus orang Melayu, dan dengan demikian
besar kemungkinan UMNO mungkin terdesak untuk
bertindak secara keganasan dam kekerasan keatas
penyokong-penyokong BA.
Dalam kita memohon doa' kepada Allah SWT agar Kerajaan
Islam di Malaysia ini akan tercapai dengan secara aman
damai, kita perlu disamping itu menyediakan diri untuk
menghadapi sebarang kemungkinan termasuk berperang
jihad sekiranya UMNO dalam keadaan terdesak melakukan
keganasan dan kekerasan terhadap kita. Antara
persediaan itu adalah mengerjakan solat sunnat
Tahajjud sebab Nabi SAW tidak akan bawa bersama ke
medan perang jihad mereka-mereka yang tidak
melakukannya.
Subject: [abimlink] VALIANT CHECHENS
Please read this article, forward and distribute it to
as many Muslims and Non-Muslims you know without
inconveniencing anyone or getting into legal trouble,
it is an important piece.
The Edmonton Sun, January 23, 2000
VALIANT CHECHENS
ERIC MARGOLIS, TORONTO SUN
DATELINE: TORONTO
From the burning ruins of Grozny came what may be a
final, heartbreaking message from its Chechen
defenders: "At a time when the world has left us
entirely, we ask Muslims around the world not to
forget the ordeal of their brothers in Chechnya
fighting the jihad (holy war) against Russian
oppression."
Look at Grozny and you see a second Warsaw Ghetto.
Like the valiant Jewish defenders who held off the
might of the Nazi SS, Chechens, another forgotten
people facing extermination, are fighting to the death
against impossible odds.
I've been a combat soldier and have covered 12
high-intensity wars from the front, but I have never
seen anything that equals the heroism and boundless
courage of the Chechen mujahedeen. For the past four
months, 5,000 lightly armed Chechen warriors fighting
on flat, open terrain that favours air, armour and
artillery, have held off 160,000 Russian troops,
backed by regiments of heavy guns and rockets,
helicopter gunships, ground attack aircraft, and
thousands of tanks and armoured vehicles. Russia's
generals have repeatedly vowed to "exterminate" the
Chechen. All Chechen males from 6-65 are being
thrown into concentration camps.
Chechen mujahedeen, most without any formal military
training, have no heavy weapons and are chronically
short of radios, anti-tank rockets and even
small-arms ammunition. There is almost no medicine or
morphine for their wounded, and no shelter from
massive Russian bombardment that includes banned
fuel air explosives, toxic gas, and napalm. If taken
alive by the Russians, they will be tortured, then
executed.
Chechnya is totally cut off from the outside world.
Only a handful of Arab, Dagestani and Estonian "ansar"
or volunteers, have managed to slip into Chechnya to
aid the struggle for independence. Many had been
killed.
Grozny - which Russian generals vowed to storm by
early December, and President Vladimir Putin promised
to take by New Year's - still holds out at this
writing.
Mujahedeen are defending every ruined building and
mined street while some 40,000 civilians cower in
cellars under non-stop Russian shelling. Still,
overwhelming Russian numbers and firepower must
eventually prevail. Losses are high on both sides -
about one Chechen for every four Russians.
Renowned Chechen field commanders, Sheiks Shamil
Basayev and Ibn al-Khattab, admit Grozny has no
strategic value, but insist, "We want to prove to the
world and the Russians that despite the size, power,
or technology of any enemy, there is no way they could
defeat the people of belief, principal and land."
Brave words from the world's bravest people.
And so 1.5 million Chechen defy 146 million Russians -
as these Caucasian mountaineers have done for the past
250 years. The Chechens who today defend Grozny are
the children of a nation that three times nearly has
been exterminated by Russian genocide - in the 18th,
19th and 20th centuries, the last when Joseph Stalin
had tens of thousands shot and the remainder of the
Chechen people deported to Siberian concentration
camps.
In the first Chechen war, 1994-96, Russia killed
100,000 Chechen civilians, razed much of the small
country, and, in an act of monumental terrorism,
scattered 17 million anti-personnel land mines across
the tiny nation. Russia was driven from Chechnya in
1996, but its hardliners and communists vowed to
"exterminate the Chechen bandits." Their man Putin's
first act as President was to declare a crusade -
blessed by the Russian Orthodox Church - against
Chechnya. Moscow demanded revenge for 1996 and for
defeat at the hands of Muslim mujahedeen in
Afghanistan.
While Russian troops fought their way into Grozny,
elite Russian forces were pushing into the southern
mountains. Chechen units are battling ferociously,
under intense shelling and bombing, to defend the
strategic Shatoi and Vedeno gorges. Outnumbered 20-1,
the Chechens' defence of mountain passes vividly
recalls the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae.
At least the mountainous terrain gives the mujahedeen
some cover; in the flat, barren north, they can only
move at night.
The Clinton administration, which is largely financing
Russia's genocide in Chechnya, supplied Russian attack
helicopters with advanced U.S. night-vision devices -
"to combat terrorism," says the White House. Bill
Clinton recently called for the "liberation" of Grozny
by Russia. Yet he cannot understand why so many
Muslims see America as their enemy.
If the West's response to Russia's Mongol-like
behaviour in Chechnya has been shameful and
hypocritical, the Islamic world's reaction is even
more
disgraceful. Important Muslim nations - like Egypt,
Malaysia and Iran - are negotiating arms and aircraft
deals with Russia. No Muslim state has dared
challenge Russian brutality or anti-Muslim racism.
The only nations to recognize Chechnya's declaration
of independence from Russia are brave little Estonia
and Afghanistan, both of which know full well the
terror of Russian occupation. China, which oppresses
its own Muslim peoples and Tibetans, loudly applauded
Russia's final solution in the Caucasus.
Those who observe a monstrous crime and do nothing
share guilt for it. We begin the 21st century watching
silently as a brutish Russia, which knows neither
shame nor mercy, crushes the life out of a tiny but
heroic people who refuse to bend their knees to
Moscow's tyranny.
