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Shamil Basayev

Shamil Salmanovich Basayev (14 January 1965-10 July 2006), also known as Abdallah Shamil Abu Idris al-Bassi, was a warlord of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. Shamil Basayev was one of the most infamous leaders of the insurgency against Russia during the Second Chechen War, and he was killed while inspecting a landmine.

Biography[]

Basayev was born in Dyshne-Vedeno in the Chechen-Ingush ASSR of the Soviet Union in 1965, and he served in the Russian Army during the Georgian-Abkhazian War. He later became a soldier of the Mujahideen, fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh War and the Chechen Wars for Islamic causes against Russia and its allies. During the Chechen Wars, he committed several atrocities as a Chechen field commander, including the 2004 Beslan school siege, where he held many students at a Beslan school hostage, leading to many of their deaths. He became one of the most-wanted men in Russia for his role in the Islamic insurgency, and he was one of the most infamous Chechen warlords of the Second Chechen War. Basayev would later be killed in a suspicious explosion, either an accidental explosion or a targeted assassination. Three cars and two KAMAZ tractor-trailer trucks stopped at Ali Yurt to deliver an arms shipment at an unfinished estate where Basayev chose to meet them on 10 July 2006. While Basayev was inspecting a mine, it blew up in front of him, killing him.

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