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1998 abduction of foreign engineers in Chechnya

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156:, located in the vicinity of the headquarters of the Chechen security team specifically tasked with fighting the plague of kidnappings in the republic. The attackers fought a brief gun battle with one of the victims' lightly armed local bodyguards (according to Chechen officials the other five bodyguards did not open fire) and one member of the gang was reportedly wounded. Nevertheless, the anti-kidnapping unit's officers did not react to the shooting, allegedly because they were not aware of the presence of the foreigners at the house, and the sound of gunfire was frequent in Grozny at night. 305: 217:. According to Chechen security forces, the hostages were executed at an unused factory south of Grozny after a rescue operation that went wrong; it was suggested that their death was a show of defiance to the authorities from the kidnappers. Family members said the abortive rescue attempt "ruined delicate negotiations" that were going on between Granger and the kidnappers, and also criticized an unnamed news agency that had given out details of where the hostages were being held shortly before the operation. 272: 321: 288: 189:; during the war with Russia, Barayev abducted a group of 29 Russian engineers near Grozny and later exchanged them for a large sum of money. According to the rumors, the company even took one of Barayev's deputies hostage and proposed exchanging him for the foreigners, yet Barayev declined and continued in demanding $ 10m for their release. 350:
At the time of the abduction many of the region's warlords were in open revolt against the ChRI government of Maskhadov, and several analysts interpreted the abductions as a political act. Maskhadov himself blamed the atrocity on the "foreign special services" and their Chechen henchmen, hinting at a
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got involved in the search for the victims. More than 60 other hostages were released as Chechen officials launched raids on the homes of suspected kidnappers, but the missing engineers were not found. During the crackdown, several suspects in the abduction were arrested, but all were later released
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as the chief suspect. Barayev himself denied that his group kidnapped and killed the foreigners. Some former hostages, including Magomed Chaguchiev from Dagestan, said they were held by Barayev together with the victims. Abdurakhman Adukhov, a former Russian hostage, claimed in November 2001 that
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special police summarily executed Isa Sakayev, allegedly a former associate of Barayev suspected to have been directly involved in the killings. In April 2005, Russian security forces said they had captured Adam Dzhabrailov, a Chechen man who they said has confessed to have participated in the
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in June 2001; according to the reports from the republic, prior to this moment he has been semi-openly collaborating with the federal forces and living freely in Chechnya under protection of the FSB. In August 2002, Russian military officials announced the arrest of a man named Khusein Idiyev,
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in 1996, as the ruined region's fledgling separatist government failed to maintain law and order, with some of the kidnapped people being sold into indentured servitude to Chechen families, where they were regarded as slaves and had to endure starvation, beating, and often maiming. Since the
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The slayings were a major blow to the efforts of the breakaway republic to gain international recognition of its declaration of independence. Kidnappings had become common in Chechnya, procuring over $ 200 million during the three year independence, particularly since the end of the
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organized by "men trained by the Russian special services" as a part of an alleged plot to turn the public opinion of neighboring nations and the world against Chechnya. The British investigation at the time surmised that the four were the victims of "warring mercenary factions".
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On December 29, the Chechen officials found the four victims' headless corpses on the outskirts of Grozny, reportedly after paying $ 2,000 a piece for the return of the bodies. That same day, the remains of the engineers were transported by Chechen Deputy Prime Minister
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In April 2002, the British government was forced to apologize to the widow of Rudi Petschi, over the way her husband's kidnap and murder had been handled. In June 2003, the families of three hostages sued for more than Β£1m in
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for lack of evidence. On October 8, a spokesman for Chechnya's Security Ministry said the abductees were alive and well, but the kidnappers had not set demands or conditions for their release.
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paid attention to sources claiming "that two of the murdered engineers were in fact undercover British agents" and, citing "a young Chechen journalist", speculated that it was probably the
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possible involvement of Russian special services using Chechen "bandits" to destabilise the breakaway territory. A similar opinion was voiced later by the Chechen commander
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as Apti Abitayev (Abitaev), was arrested over the abductions and had confessed to kidnapping the four foreigners. He was also named by the Chechen separatist warlord
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said he was "saddened and angered". He also announced a national crackdown on kidnappers and called for mobilisation of war veterans to fight the organized crime.
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described by them as a prominent member of Barayev's group, suspected of involvement in the 1998 killings. In December 2004, members of the Chechen
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After nearly two months, at the end of November, the kidnappers contacted Granger, promising that the hostages were alive and well and demanding a
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atrocity (according to the Russian military spokesman, Dzhabrailov was also suspected of involvement in the 1996 killings at the
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for the constituency where victim Peter Kennedy lived, has blamed the Chechen security forces for bungling a rescue attempt.
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company which had won a Β£183m contract for the separatist government-run company Chechentelekom to install telephone lines,
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and a mobile phone system throughout the war-ravaged republic; the work was suspended after the four men were kidnapped.
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as a kidnapper connected to Russian special services, was reportedly killed by Russians in May 2001. In January 2008,
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delegates were assassinated on 17 December 1996. A seventh delegate, also a foreigner, was wounded and left for dead.
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Tishkov, Valery. Chechnya: Life in a War-Torn Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Page 114
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On December 8, the abductees' heads were found in a sack on the side of a highway in the Chechen village of
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planned those killings, and that members of the armed group subordinate to Abitayev carried them out.
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was involved in the crime together with Abitayev, and later became a district chief in the pro-Moscow
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paid him $ 30m to kill the hostages, outbidding the ransom demand of $ 10m. Aid worker and writer
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with a large knife. Examination of the bodies showed all the men had been extremely
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In December 1998, ChRI authorities announced that a suspect, identified by the
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Barayev was reported killed by either Russian or pro-Russian forces during the
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to spying for "German, English and Israeli special services" and the
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Sakwa R. Chechnya: From Past to Future. Anthem Press. 2005. p. 83
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On the night of October 3, 1998, a well-armed group of up to 20
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On December 13, 1998, Maskhadov officially named the warlord
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Engineers were starved, beaten and decapitated, inquest told
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and Rudi Petschi had suffered particularly severe injuries.
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Index

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Ichkeria
United Kingdom
Chechen
Grozny
unrecognized
secessionist
Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
Britons
Hereford
Surrey
Devon
New Zealand
telecommunication
satellite links
First Chechen War
hostage
ICRC
Chechen
Grozny
ChRI
ransom
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Her Majesty's Government
Kommersant
Arbi Barayev
Assinovskaya
Ingushetia
Vakha Arsanov
Russian

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