Twitter Attack World Micro

The Cossack Culture alive and performing ethnic cleansing in Russia

Russian politicos dragged down Twitter and its millions of users because of one antagonist who was dissing Russia over military conflicts in Georgia, the War in Abkhazia.

According to an article in the U.K. Register, the "torrent of traffic that brought the site to its knees wasn't the result of a traditional DDoS, or distributed denial of service attack, but rather people who clicked on a link in spam messages that referenced a well-known blogger called Cyxymu."

CYXYMU is the blog name of the Georgian antagonist the Russians wanted to silence.

Here is a link that retells what was endured years ago by fellow Georgians and also reveals the motivating force behind the fighting: Russia's desire to get Georgia to join the CIS.

http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/29542/b5f1ff2ebdb92dabafda4b44e960db4c.htm

Here is CYXYMU's orginal post:

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/10/20/the-war-in-abkhazia-cyxymu-remembers/


This kind of aggression on neighboring countries is as old as recorded history. But of course, the difference is the whole rest of the populated world knew about it within a short time frame; and we even became unwitting participants. PrairieHOMEliving's Twitter was down on Thursday...


Now, we can't help but become witnesses, recorders of the atrocities. In the 1870's when the Russian Cossacks pillaged and ransacked the shettels of poor Russian Jews, there were no International agencies or activists, witnesses, working on their behalf, other than those who helped them flee. Some of the oppressed were lucky to be able to immigrate, leaving behind their native country for a better life.. leaving behind the ethnic cleansing..

And with this micro view comes a responsiblity we all share to witness and speak out against injustices in any land...


Putin using old Cossack Strategies-

"Since the fall fo the Soviet Union and more prominently under President Putin, there has been a great revival (See Radio Free Europe’s Piece) of the Cossack culture and increasing political clout including a movement to reassert their role as a security/military instrument of the state. And already it seems like they are back to performing ethnic cleansing duties in Russia."

Read the entire article at:


http://www.strategyunit.net/2005/11/cossacks-revival-tool-of-the-imperial-state-and-ethnic-cleansing/