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In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate!
Honorable countrymen! Brothers and sisters and those not indifferent to the tragic fate of the long-suffering Chechen people.
Today we witnessed yet another treacherous stab in the back to the Chechen people who are fighting for their freedom and independence: the former president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev was brutally and cowardly killed and his 13-year-old only son was seriously wounded in an inhuman terrorist act in Qatar .
I have no doubts whatsoever that the Russian secret services, which currently spearhead the vanguard of international terrorism, are directly involved in this perfidious terrorist act. Nonetheless, the criminal and terrorist Kremlin regime is persistently and cynically trying to impute this role to the recalcitrant and God-fearing Chechen people, placing the immeasurably heavy burden of its own bloody crimes on someone else.
The enemies of the Chechen people are not only ignominiously killing its heroes and leaders, but are also trying to discredit them after their death, defame the righteous deeds which they sacrificed on the altar of the liberation of their homeland from an all-out invasion by two-legged Russian vandals of the 21st century, as well as to sow seeds of discord and distrust among the remaining survivors.
Suffice it to mention the dirty rumor which they circulated about allegedly unshared money, which “gravely offended” Maskhadov. I am strongly stating once again that such cheap tricks and silly fabrications cannot divide the Chechen resistance or set its leaders against one another. It is about time to realize this. We learned the habits of our historical enemies perfectly well long ago, and we have developed a durable and life-long immunity against them.
| Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev stood at the origins of Chechen statehood. |
Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev stood at the origins of Chechen statehood; he was my trusted friend and staunch associate in the struggle against the inhuman Russian empire. For a long time he was my personal envoy and plenipotentiary representative of the CRI in Muslim states, and in this capacity he accomplished many useful and necessary missions for the CRI and its people.
The heroic death of Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, as well as the death of our first President Dzhokhar Dudayev in 1996, has united the brave and uncompromising fighters for the freedom and independence of the Chechen nation even more strongly. This terrorist act will reverberate in Putin's Russia again and again. And I say this with full responsibility.
| This terrorist act will reverberate in Putin's Russia again and again. And I say this with full responsibility. |
The all-out invasion, state terrorism, genocide, ecocide and numerous war crimes committed by the Russian government against the civilians of Ichkeria, who have been held hostage by the Russian soldiery for five years now, are causing among the ranks of the Chechen national liberation movement a feeling of rejection and profound antagonism towards the Kremlin's terror and its dirty methods of dealing with undesirables. And this terrorist act is a link in this inhuman chain. We see how almost on a regular basis Russia itself is shaken by monstrous terrorist acts, whose organizers are at the KGB headquarters in Lubyanka.
The official authorities of the CRI will conduct their own investigation of the circumstances of death of the former president of the CRI, Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev. I hope that the Qatari authorities will bring the investigation of this ignominious and cowardly terrorist act to its logical end and will justly punish its organizers and perpetrators no matter what. We, on our part, are ready to cooperate in any form that the Qatari side might consider to be appropriate and useful.
On my direct order, measures are already being taken which will prevent in the future similar perfidious acts against Chechen leaders by Russian secret services.
The Chechen resistance has enough forces, means, and willpower to continue its fight for the freedom of the Chechen people until the territory of Chechnya is liberated from the Russian invaders and aggressors. We have confirmed this every day for the past 10 years by our selfless and heroic resistance to the massive and cruel colonial monster of the empire, as well as by the 400-year history of this struggle.
Chechens deserve freedom, and we will win it without fail; the only question is how much more human blood will be shed until the Kremlin finally realizes that it must engage in real political dialogue with the Chechens, rather than in a policy of state terrorism and vile assassination of their leaders.
Chechens will never accept the language of force or the ambitions of Russia 's imperial policy. Only the civilized legal experience of mankind in resolving disputes and starting a negotiating process will immediately save Russia from the abyss of chaos into which it is rapidly falling, pushed by the incumbent regime, with unforeseen consequence for both the Chechen and Russian people.
Today's terrorist act, committed by Russian secret services against Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, fully confirms all of this.
I express my most profound condolences to the family, relatives and loved ones of my glorious comrade-in-arms and associate Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, as well as to the entire heroic Chechen nation, which has lost one of its most prominent and worthiest sons!
Dear countrymen! We believe that justice will prevail and that this bloody terrorist act will not remain unpunished!
May the grace of Almighty Allah always be with you!
God is Great!
President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
Aslan Maskhadov
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