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Originally posted by Rudey
I believe each family should be held accountable for any terrorists that hide in their house. If terrorists knew the price of terrorism would go up and that their families would be arrested or executed, I bet terrorism would stop. A few extra people may die in the beginning but I bet in the end, less people would die.
-Rudey
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Interesting... that's exactly the method used in Chechnya during the winter operations that moe.ron mentioned... if a house or family ever sheltered a terrorist, raze it and the neighbooring houses to the ground... and hey why not shoot out of hand the first son of the "guilty" family" for good messure.
The actions taken by the newly constituted "Cossack" Unit resposible for "pacifing" the region were so appauling that other Russian units refused to serve with them, and asked that the unit be disbanded... finally when the Spentanz complained about the brutality of the Cossack unit (campared them to SS Commando's), the unit was finally disbanded, after 2 months "on the line". Seems the other units felt that the actions of a few brutal men, where creating more enemies than they killed or "pacified". Collective and arbitrary punishments against a population does not work...