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Movsar BaraevChechen executioner |
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Biography of Movsar Barayev
Movsar Suleymanov, also known as Barayev, was a Chechen warlord and one of the new leaders of the Chechen resistance. He was personally trained by Khattab. In June 2001, he took over the band formation led by his uncle Arbi Barayev, known as the "Islamic Regiment," after his uncle was killed during a special operation in the Alkhan-Kala village area. In the first few months of his leadership, Movsar was able to strengthen his position among both the leadership of the band formations that distributed money and the subordinate commanders of smaller band groups. He managed to secure generous funding for his gang from Khattab. Colonel Shabalkin of the Russian Armed Forces noted that Khattab was exceptionally generous in providing large sums of money, around $600,000, to Movsar for organizing terrorist attacks and paying his subordinates. Other leaders, on the other hand, received funding as a last priority or not at all. This situation greatly angered Chechen field commanders who did not want to serve under Khattab. As a result, some Chechen commanders carried out the murder of Movsar Barayev's ally, Aslambek Adiyev, the emir of the Argun jamaat, who was previously the commander of the Shalinsky district of Ichkeria. Additionally, Movsar Barayev was involved in a conflict with the Chechen commander Usmam Chenchiev over a simple criminal redistribution of influence. Movsar Barayev frequently carried out terrorist attacks in the city of Argun, which Usmam Chenchiev considered his territory of influence. This led to federal forces conducting special operations and "mop-up" operations in the city, resulting in significant losses for Usmam Chenchiev's group. For these reasons, according to Colonel Shabalkin, Aslambek Abdulkhadzhiev and Usmam Chenchiev openly declared their intention to kill Movsar Barayev and his "followers," who were being blamed for the destruction of the Argun jamaat by federal forces. Furthermore, Movsar Barayev was repeatedly accused by Russian special services of being involved in kidnappings and numerous terrorist attacks in the Chechen Republic. Several times, there were reports of his death through news agencies, but each time these reports were denied by Chechen illegal websites.
Message from June 25, 2001, BBC News:
"Arbi Barayev was one of the most cruel, maniacal terrorists," and his unit was one of the most combat-ready, according to Sergei Yastrzhembsky, an aide to the President of Russia. Before the uprising, Barayev was neither a prominent official nor a career Soviet officer. He was 28 years old when he was killed. Arbi Alautdinovich Barayev was born in 1973 in the village of Ermolovka near Grozny.
Unlike other Chechen resistance figures, Barayev was not a prominent official or a Soviet officer before the uprising. He only had a secondary education and served as a senior traffic police officer until 1991. He emerged as a leader with the development of the separatist process. In 1995, he became the leader of a self-defense unit in the village of Alkhan-Kala. He was then appointed as the commander of the "Islamic Special Purpose Regiment."
Security services suspect that he had connections with high-ranking Moscow officials. By the end of the first stage of the Chechen conflict, Arbi Barayev had become a general in the army. On July 14-15, 1998, his regiment's fighters provoked military actions in Grozny, resulting in human casualties. As a result, Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov stripped Barayev of his general rank and ordered the disbandment of the "Islamic Special Purpose Regiment."
Afterwards, Barayev, known as "Emir Tarzan," specialized in kidnapping people. Security services suspect that he had connections with high-ranking Moscow officials, which they believe explains the success of his actions, such as the kidnapping of Valentin Vlasov, a representative of the Russian President, as well as the abduction of FSB officers in Ingushetia - Gribov and Lebedinsky, and the representative of the administration of the Volgograd region, Malyshev.
Security service representatives believe that Barayev was involved in the kidnapping and murder of Major General Gennady Shpigun, as well as the beheading of four British and New Zealand citizens, and the abduction of the Israeli boy, Adi Sharon.
Barayev organized special units to lift the siege of Grozny. The group consisted of more than 400 militants. The headquarters was located in his hometown of Ermolovka.
The operation to eliminate the group lasted for six days and was carried out by the regional operational headquarters with the involvement of special units of the Russian FSB and Ministry of Internal Affairs, including the "Vityaz" detachment of the Dzerzhinsky division of the internal troops.
One person was killed from the federal side during the operation. Seventeen separatists were killed.
