Akhmed Chalidowitsch Sakajew

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Akhmed Zakayev ( ch etsch. Заки Хьалид кІант lахьмад, Russian Ахмед Халидович Закаев , * 26. April 1959 in Kirowski (now Balpyk) Taldy-Kurganskaja Oblast (now Almaty area , Koksu) district, Kazakh SSR , USSR ) is a Chechen actor and later politician, currently Prime Minister of the Chechen government in exile .

biography

Sakayev was born in Kazakhstan, where his family had been deported in 1944. A short time after his birth, his family was able to return to their hometown Urus-Martan in Chechnya .

After school he studied choreography and acting in Grozny and Voronezh . 1981–1990 he was an actor at the Chanpascha Nuradilow theater in Grozny. From 1991 he was chairman of the Chechen Union of Theater Actors. In 1994 he became Minister of Culture of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria under Jokhar Dudayev . In 1997 he became Foreign Minister.

Foreign Minister under President Maskhadov

Akhmed Sakayev was instrumental in organizing the conquest of Grozny in 1996 and the defense of the city in 2000. He was the foreign emissary of Aslan Aliyevich Maskhadov , the Chechen president who was killed on March 8, 2005. Sakayev lived in Moscow as the representative of Maskhadov. In 2001 he went to political asylum in Great Britain, the Maskhadov employee Ilyas Akhmadov went into exile in the US.

In this capacity, he rejected the responsibility of the official Chechen government for recent terrorist attacks, the perpetrators of which the Russian side has ascribed to the Chechen separatists. These include the suicide attack by two women on a rock festival in Moscow attended by around 40,000 people on July 5, 2003, the suicide attack by a woman on the Moscow subway on February 6, 2004, and the double crash of two Russian transport planes on August 24, 2004.

In October 2002 Sakayev took part in the General Assembly of the Chechen World Congress in Copenhagen . He was arrested there on October 30 at the request of the Russian government. The Kremlin demanded Sakayev's extradition to Russia, as he was accused of involvement in the bloody hostage-taking in Moscow's Dubrovka Theater , which had just occurred a few days earlier. However, the evidence submitted for extradition did not give the Danish court sufficient suspicion and the accused was released on December 2, 2002.

Activities after the death of Maskhadov

He was a friend of the Russian ex-secret service officer Alexander Walterowitsch Litvinenko , who was murdered on November 1, 2006, until the Russian's death.

Doku Khamatovich Umarov was President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (underground government of the Chechen separatists) until he declared himself the emir of the Caucasus emirate on October 31, 2007 . The proclamation of the emirate was rejected by several leaders of the Chechen separatist movement (including Akhmed Sakayev). Umarov is no longer recognized by them as president. Sakayev, arguably the most influential among Chechen politicians in exile, is now considered to be the leader of the Chechen underground.

He had announced a ceasefire on August 1, 2009. His influence on the resistance forces ended before the Wahhabi forces and Islamic fundamentalists.

On September 17, 2010, Sakayev was arrested by the Polish police in Warsaw on the basis of an international arrest warrant. However, he was released after just a few hours because a court in Warsaw rejected pre-trial detention because Sakayev has been enjoying political asylum in Great Britain since 2003. According to an employee of Sakayev, the final decision on the extradition request lies with the Polish Minister of Justice. Sakayev wanted to attend a congress of Chechens in exile in Poland.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Кавказский Узел: Закаев Ахмед Халидович . In: Кавказский Узел . ( kavkaz-uzel.eu [accessed December 3, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Bizarre theater about the ruler of Itschkeria in: NZZ Online from September 17, 2010
  3. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau : Caucasus Rebel only briefly in custody , September 17, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Sakayev, Akhmed Chalidowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Заки Хьалид кІант lахьмад (Chechen); Закаев, Ахмед Халидович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chechen actor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirowski