Aslan Maskhadov

Aslan (Alivitch) Maskhadov (September 21st 1951, Kazakhstan - March 8th 2005, Tolstoi-Yourt, Chetchnia), was regarded as the president of the car-proclaimed republic of Chetchnia.

The parents of Maskhadov, like the majority of Tchétchènes, are exiled by Joseph Stalin and find themselves with the Kazakhstan. Following the death of Stalin in 1953, Tchétchènes return as Chetchnia, which makes Maskhadov in 1957. Maskhadov enters then the Red Army , stations in Hungary and Soviet Lithuania. In 1991, Maskhadov takes part in the military repression of the Lithuanian independence movement.

During the first war of Chetchnia, between 1994 and 1996, Maskhadov is general and chief of staff of the independence army to the orders of Djokhar Doudaïev. Many considers the talents miltaires of Maskhadov essential in the victory against the Russia. After the assassination of Doudaïev, it is him which negotiates peace with the Russian Général Alexandre Lebed. In January 1997, it is elected president of the Republic of Chetchnia vis-a-vis Chamil Bassaïev.

At the beginning of this new era, Maskhadov and Bassaïev collaborate but the relations worsen quickly between the two military chiefs. Bassaïev on several occasions tries to make assassinate Maskhadov and vice versa (this information is however prone to guarantee). The country is in prey with a multiplication of firmly armed local potentates which line up either behind the “traditional” freedom fighter, or behind the freedom fighter and fundamentalist Moslem wahhabite Bassaïev.

The president does not hold the country which sinks in full civil war. Russia envenime the situation by a blockade partial and some interventions of the special services. After an attempt at invasion of the combatants of Bassaïev in the Republic close to the Daghestan, the Federation of Russia decides to intervene militarily on October 1st 1999, at the same time to take again the control of Chetchnia and to keep the other Caucasian republics under control.

Maskhadov, in spite of its title of president and it good-to want Westerners, is unable to fight that it is against the increasingly daring and bloody military actions of Bassaïev, financed by generous patrons of Saudi Arabia, against the growing influence of the Islam more the reactionary in the company tchetchene or against the presence of the Russian army on the territory tchetchene as from October 2000. This triple incapacity all the more decreases its credibility among Tchétchènes, whereas it was the single one with being able to negotiate the one second peace with the Russians.

In 2003, at the end of elections sullied with important irregularities, it is Akhmad Kadyrov, former freedom fighter rejoined with the policy of Vladimir Poutine which is elected president de Tchétchénie. Living in clandestinity, Maskhadov, that the Russian forces describe as “terrorist of foreground”, is regularly shown to be mixed with the attacks made on the Russian territory, without the least concrete bond being able to be put at the day. With the difference of Chamil Bassaiev, Maskhadov always affirmed to be opposed to the violent actions against the civilians. That which one called also the “wolf of Chetchnia” found death at the time of a combat against the Russian special forces the March 8th 2005. According to the reports/ratios of special operation, Maskhadov was killed by its own guard of body during the shooting with the “ spetsnaz ” (Russian special forces). This last point must be taken with an extreme precaution because it could be a question of an attempt at discredit organized by the FSB, as seem to indicate it certain incoherent elements of the official version.

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