CHECHEN HOSTAGE RAID LEADER EMERGES TO VOW CONTINUED FIGHT.Byline: Michael Specter Michael Specter (born 1955) is an American journalist who has been a staff writer, focusing on science and technology, at The New Yorker since September 1998. He has also written for The Washington Post and The New York Times. The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Russia's humiliation at the hands of Chechen guerrillas deepened further Monday, when the leader of the hostage raid of the past 10 days emerged from seclusion seclusion Forensic psychiatry A strategy for managing disturbed and violent Pts in psychiatric units, which consists of supervised confinement of a Pt to a room–ie, involuntary isolation, to protect others from harm to ridicule his enemies and promise that the fight would continue. "They call us bandits but we are not bandits," Salman Raduyev This article is about Salman Raduyev, with the nickname "Titanic". For other uses, see Titanic. Salman Raduyev (or Raduev; Russian: said in an interview in an undisclosed location near his home town of Novogroznensky in the secessionist republic of Chechnya. "We are Allah's warriors fighting for our independence." Raduyev, a close relative of the Chechen rebel leader, Dzhokar M. Dudayev, led a raid two weeks ago on a hospital in Kizlyar in the nearby republic of Dagestan. The Chechens took 3,400 hostages there and ultimately escaped with some of them. The rebels were then encircled en·cir·cle tr.v. en·cir·cled, en·cir·cling, en·cir·cles 1. To form a circle around; surround. See Synonyms at surround. 2. To move or go around completely; make a circuit of. in a small border village, where they were attacked by Russia's most elite army units for days. Many of them managed to escape through a ring of thousands of soldiers, and somehow, Chechen officials confirmed Monday, they apparently managed to drag dozens of hostages with them through the heavy gunbattle, across the frozen Terek River, and into the wooded forests of Chechnya. How many of the rebels and their hostages were killed during the Russian assault remains unclear, but it now appears that the rebels escaped with far more of their hostages than initially reported. Dudayev's chief spokesman, Movladi Udugov, told reporters Monday that several dozen civilian hostages would be released today. He said that a group of 20 or so special Russian police commandos would be held as prisoners of war prisoners of war, in international law, persons captured by a belligerent while fighting in the military. International law includes rules on the treatment of prisoners of war but extends protection only to combatants. . Russian leaders reacted bitterly again Monday to the Chechen hostage seizure, and the confirmation that Raduyev had escaped, apparently without injury. In Moscow, Interior Minister Anatoly Kulikov said on Russian television Monday night that "the operation in Chechnya will now be toughened." He said that new federal forces would soon be dispatched to the region and that "they would crush" the rebels. It was a day of repercussions repercussions npl → répercussions fpl repercussions npl → Auswirkungen pl and reprisals REPRISALS, war. The forcibly taking a thing by one nation which belonged to another, in return or satisfaction for a injury committed by the latter on the former. Vatt. B., 2, ch. 18, s. 342; 1 Bl. Com. ch. 7. 2. in Moscow, as the Russian leadership confronted the political damage it sustained in the Dagestani village of Pervomayskoye, which it destroyed in the largely ineffective attack on the rebel position. Yegor T. Gaidar, one of Russia's best known liberal politicians and a former acting prime minister in the administration of President Boris Yeltsin, denounced Yeltsin on Monday, resigning from his senior advisory council. "I can't imagine a situation where I could return to the position of supporting the president," he said. The speaker of the newly elected Parliament, Gennadi Seleznyov, a Communist, said, "Yeltsin could go down in history as Russia's first and last president." |
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