RFE/RL: Confusion Surrounds Purported Attack on Chechen Renegade
posted by circassiankama on August, 2009 as CHECHNYA
July 29, 2009
Confusion Surrounds Purported Attack On Chechen Renegade
Moscow police have yet to confirm claims by former Chechen parliament deputy Isa Yamadayev of an attempt to assassinate him at his Moscow apartment late on July 28.
Yamadayev
told the radio station Ekho Moskvy on July 29 that a man whom he did
not identify opened fire on him. He refused to say whether or not he
was injured. But he did say his attacker was apprehended.
The
Yamadayev brothers were active in the Chechen resistance during the
first (1994-96) war, but when hostilities resumed in 1999 they aligned
with former Chechen mufti Akhmed-hadji Kadyrov, whom then-Russian
President Vladimir Putin named to govern Chechnya in June 2000.
Isa
Yamadayev's elder brother Ruslan, a former State Duma deputy, was shot
dead in Moscow in September 2008. A second brother, Sulim, the former
head of the Russian Defense Ministry's notorious and now disbanded
Vostok battalion, fled Russia last fall after falling foul of current
Chechen Republic head Ramzan Kadyrov (Akhmed-hadji's son). It remains
unclear whether he was killed or merely seriously injured in assassination attempt in Dubai in late March.
On
July 22, the Dubai authorities announced that two people, including a
groom who tended Kadyrov's racehorses, will soon stand trial on charges
of attempting to murder Sulim Yamadayev. Russian commentators have
construed that charge as indirect corroboration that Sulim is still
alive.
Isa Yamadayev was questioned for over a week in Moscow in
May in connection with an unsolved abduction and with media reports
that Sulim Yamadayev had tried through a third person to warn Kadyrov
and his cousin Adam Delimkhanov that they risked being killed in
revenge for their perceived role in the murder of Ruslan Yamadayev.
One week ago, Isa Yamadayev addressed a formal request
to Aleksandr Bastrykin, the head of the Investigation Committee of the
Russian Prosecutor General's Office, for protection against an
anticipated attempt to kill him.
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