Vakha Arsanov
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Vakha Arsanov was a former vice president in the Aslan Maskhadov's inter-war government of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.
[edit] Life
Arsanov was a military commander during the First Chechen War. In January 1997 he run an on the same ticket as Aslan Maskhadov, and the two won Chechnya's presidential election when almost 300,000 Chechen voters chose Maskhadov and Arsanov.
After the Second Chechen War begun in 1999 Arsanov disappeared in Georgia where he was treated for a peactime injury. He resurfaced in 2001 to describe the continuing opposition to Russian federal forces as "pointless," for what he was fired Maskhadov on 31 August 2001. [1]
In February 2005 the separatists protested the alleged arrest and detention of Arsanov by the Russian party. [2]
[edit] Death
On May 15, 2005 Russia announced that during a raid in the village of Ivanovo, a suburb of Grozny, Russian forces killed four militants, including Arsanov. [3]
The death was shrouded in mystery, including uncertainity voiced by the Russian officials (the bodies were reported to be burned too badly to be identified), and the previous informations by the separatist sources that Arsanov was at the time in the Russian custody.
According to the latter, Arsanov was held in Ramzan Kadyrov's private prison in Tsentoroi and unsuccessfully tortured there "in order to incline him toward cooperating with the occupiers". [4]
[edit] External links
- Top Rebel Figure Arsanov Detained in Chechnya Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
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