Bullets and borders: the nation state is on its last legs - but people are still prepared to die for their country.

New Internationalist | March 1, 1996| | Copyright

As I write this, Chechen separatists and their civilian hostages have been pounded to pieces by the Russian army in the village of Pervomayskoye. Some, to the Russians' chagrin, have escaped, many have died, hostages and fighters alike smashed to bloody pulp. The Chechens were prepared to die - and if necessary to see their hostages die - for the sake of something they prize more than life: a country of their own.

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