Muslim-majority republics inside Russia actively resisted the Chechen war

Evidence

The president of the Chuvash republic exempted Chuvash draftees from serving against their follow Muslims. The “strongest protests against the war” occurred in Chechnya’s two neighboring republics of Ingushetia and Dagestan. The Ingush attacked Russian troops on their way to Chechnya, leading the Russian defense minister to declare that the Ingush government “had virtually declared war on Russia,” and attacks on Russian forces also occurred in Dagestan. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 766

Categorization

• XREF: Chuvash draft exemption echoes My Lai-era and Vietnam-era refusals, and connects to broader questions of conscript loyalty to kin-civilization over state.