Budyonnovsk hostage-taking
The hostage-taking of Budyonnovsk took place in 1995 in the southern Russian city of Budyonnovsk .
Chechen fighters led by Shamil Basayev took between 1,100 and 1,600 hostages in the city's hospital on June 14, 1995. When the hospital was violently stormed by Russian security forces, 120 hostages were killed and around 400 injured. The then President Boris Yeltsin later criticized the violent actions of the Russian troops. The hostage situation lasted a total of six days.
A member of the State Duma , Russia's most famous psychotherapist and miracle healer Anatoly Kashpirovsky at the time , took part in direct negotiations with Basayev . On June 18, 1995, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and Basayev agreed to the release of the surviving hostages against the cessation of Russian military actions in the First Chechnya War , the beginning of peace talks and the free withdrawal of the hostage-takers.
The FSB -Vorsitzende Sergei Stepashin and Interior Minister Viktor Jerin then lost their posts.
As a direct consequence of the hostage drama in Budyonnovsk, Russia passed a law to combat terrorism, which basically forbids the state to give in to the demands of the terrorists. June 22, 1995 was declared a national day of mourning in Russia.
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Neef : Chechnya: We will live. Der Spiegel, June 26, 1995, pp. 120-122.
- ↑ Russia: Death with Symbolic Value Die Zeit , July 7, 2006
- ^ Rüdiger Dingemann : Westermann Lexicon of trouble spots in the world. Conflicts and wars since 1945 , Westermann , Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-07-509516-8 . P. 647
- ↑ А. Кашпировский | Будённовск - «Отцы» Победы. Retrieved January 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Риа Новости: Хронология захвата заложников в городе Буденновск. Справка. June 10, 2011, accessed January 12, 2018 (Russian).
- ↑ Российские будни. December 16, 1997, accessed January 12, 2018 .