Basayev, Shamil

Basayev, Shamil
▪ 2007

      Chechen separatist, guerrilla leader, and terrorist (b. Jan. 14, 1965, near Vedeno, Chechen-Ingush A.S.S.R., U.S.S.R. [now in Chechnya, Russia]—d. July 10, 2006, Ekazhevo, Ingushetia, Russia), built a reputation for violent actions against Russian domination of his homeland that assumed legendary proportions. He gained international notoriety for the school takeover and subsequent massacre at Beslan, in Russia's North Ossetian Republic, in September 2004. After being held responsible for the 1991 hijacking of a Russian airliner to Turkey, Basayev became steadily more brutal as Russia's war in Chechnya dragged on and was considered to have led the taking of hostages at a hospital in Budyonnovsk, Russia, in 1995; the takeover of a Moscow theatre and the ensuing siege in 2002; the planting of the bomb that killed Akhmad Kadyrov, the pro-Moscow president of Chechnya, in May 2004; and a 2005 attack on Nalchik, in southern Russia, among countless other acts of terrorism and murder. Basayev was killed when a truck carrying dynamite exploded while he was preparing for another raid in the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia.

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