Akhmat Abdulchamidovich Kadyrov

Akhmat Kadyrov in May 2003

Akhmad Kadyrov ( Russian Ахмат Абдулхамидович Кадыров , Chechen Къадар Ӏабдулхьамидан кӀант Ахьмад-Хьажи * 23. August 1951 in Karaganda , Kazakh SSR , Soviet Union , today Karaganda, Kazakhstan ; † 9. May 2004 in Grozny ) called 1994 as Mufti of Chechnya to Jihad against Russia , then switched sides, became head of the Russian administrative authority in Chechnya in 2000 and was elected President of the Chechen Republic on October 5, 2003 in a controversial election. On May 9, 2004, he was killed in a bomb attack in a stadium in the capital, Grozny. His son Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov has been President of Chechnya since May 2007 .

Life

Kadyrov was born in Kazakhstan . His family got there because of the deportation of the Chechen population by Stalin in 1944. In 1957 they were able to return to their real home. After completing school in Batschi-Yurt , Kadyrov worked from 1969 to 1971 in a rice kolkhoz near Gudermes and then until 1980 for various construction companies in the non-black earth region and in Siberia .

In 1980 he was the Mosque of Gudermes to study at a madrasa in Bukhara sent. In 1982 he went from there to the Islamic Institute of Tashkent , where he graduated in 1986. From 1986 to 1988 he was deputy imam at the Gudermes mosque. In 1989 he co-founded the Islamic Institute in Kurchaloi - the first in the North Caucasus - and became its rector . He dropped out of studies at the Islamic University of Amman , which he had begun in 1990 , to return to his homeland when a state of emergency was imposed in 1991 after Chechnya declared independence .

In 1993 he became deputy mufti, and in 1995 he was elected mufti of Chechnya. In the First Chechnya War he was still clearly on the side of the independence fighters and even gave this war the consecration of jihad. In 1996 he began his arguments with Aslan Maskhadov and Shamil Basayev , whom he accused of allowing themselves to be taken over by the so-called Wahhabis , the fundamentalists supported by Islamic countries abroad . The struggle for power with Maskhadov, who was elected president in 1997, was probably behind these ideological conflicts.

With the beginning of the Second Chechen War in 1999, Kadyrov openly sided with Russia. In 2000 he was appointed head of administration of the Chechen Republic - and thus the opponent of Maskhadov, who was not recognized by Moscow. From January 2001 he was also head of the local branch of the Russian state oil company Rosneft .

In 2003, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the election of a president for Chechnya, hoping to stem the conflict over independence. The way the election went, however, tended to harden the fronts: Putin managed to get all candidates who were ahead of Kadyrov in the polls to withdraw their candidacy. For lack of alternatives and in the hope that he would nevertheless help to resolve the conflict, Kadyrov was elected on October 5, 2003, according to official figures, with 80.84% ​​of the vote and a turnout of 87.7%.

Maskhadov called the election - like many Western politicians and human rights organizations - a farce and called for resistance against the Russian armed forces . Soon after Kadyrow's change of sides, he had called for him to be killed. Kadyrov announced that he would crack down on his opponents. His son Ramzan commands the several thousand people comprehensive bodyguard kadyrovtsy , before many more Chechens fear than from the Russians, since its members are bound, in contrast to the Russian soldiers to any legal norms.

On May 9, 2004, Kadyrov was killed in front of the cameras by a land mine installed under the stands on which he attended the celebrations marking the day of the victory of the Soviet Union over fascist Germany. Since Kadyrov had survived several attacks, he was strictly guarded. The grandstand on which he was located was also examined twice for explosives before the festivities. The explosive device was not found because it was in the concrete. The Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev claimed to be the organizer of the attack.

On November 8, 2004, according to the Russian government, 22 fighters were killed in an offensive by Chechen security forces. Among them was the alleged murderer of the Chechen president.

Honors

After the assassination in 2004, Russian President Putin - unlike in previous attacks - immediately appeared in front of the television cameras and announced retaliation against the Chechen fighters. One day later, on May 10, 2004, Akhmat Kadyrov was posthumously awarded the Hero of the Russian Federation by a decree of the Russian President .

The Akhmat Kadyrov Mosque in Grozny, which opened in October 2008, was named after him.

In 2017, Grozny's largest football club, formerly Terek Grozny, was renamed Akhmat Grozny Kadyrov in honor of Kadyrov.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Кадыров Ахмат Абдулхамидович ( Russian )

Web links

Commons : Achmat Abdulchamidowitsch Kadyrov  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• http://www.taz.de/pt/2004/05/10/a0120.nf/text.ges,1 - Comment on the attack on Kadyrov in the taz