Anthony Marra Quotes

Other places are also generators of far-flung violence beyond their own borders - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are obvious examples - but none has as long a history of war, resistance, and terror as Chechnya.

We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future.

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.

Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.

My first real awareness of Chechnya came when I was a college student studying in Russia. I arrived in St. Petersburg about two months after Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated for her reports on Chechnya. I lived with an elderly woman and her grown children in an apartment that was not too far from the neighborhood military cadet school.

I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.

Russia has the right to deliver preventive strikes against bases of bandits, wherever they are located, including the territory of Chechnya.

Failed states have become breeding grounds for conflict.

Yemen is one of the most dangerous spots in the world.

We have a failed state in Syria.

Ethiopia is an island of stability within the Horn of Africa, which is a troubled region.

In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out de facto international news bureau.

Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.

Africa is a very dangerous place.

There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

We know that there are various activities important to the insurgents in Iraq that are occurring in Syria.

We brought disaster upon... Arab refugees, by inviting them and bringing pressure to bear upon them to leave... We have rendered them dispossessed... We have accustomed them to begging... We have participated in lowering their moral and social level... Then we exploited them in executing crimes of murder, arson, and throwing bombs upon... men, women and children - all this in service of political purposes...

The Gates of Hell have been opened in Iraq.

Give the Serbs 48 hours, and if they don't release the hostages, bomb them to hell.

…this is a warning to the Russian authorities

If the principle product of the Middle East were broccoli, we would not worry about the Middle East.

Our sacrifices are terrible. I can safely say that there is no other part of the world which has been devastated on a vaster scale than Yugoslavia. Every tenth Yugoslav has perished in this struggle in which we were forced to wrest armaments from our enemies, to freeze without clothing, and to die without medication

Terrorism often finds a home in states mired in civil war …