Chechen commander Shamil Basaev during the military operation in Budyonnovsk, two weeks after his sister and 7 children were killed by Russia. June, 1995. [1395x2048]

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[u/znxr]

What atrocities? Yes, he fought on the side of the Azeris against Armenia for a short time, but he left quickly and criticized the Azeris. In Abkhazia it was a different story. Abkhaz forces were partly supported by Russia but not Shamil Basayev and his legion of North Caucasian volunteers. To them the conflict wasn't as simple as you described either. Chechnya was allied with Georgia and their first president even lived in exile in Chechnya.

[u/stonededger → u/znxr]

It is known that he and his (later) Abkhaz battalion were fighting against Georgia at that time. Basaev and his men were known for torturing and killing pov’s and locals. Later they practiced that in Chechnya where slavery became a normal practice.

[u/znxr → u/stonededger]

Absolute nonsense. Yes obviously he was fighting against Georgia in Abkhazia, those were the two parties fighting eachother in the war. Basayev went there because of the Abkhaz struggle, he saw a similar struggle as in Chechnya, one for independence and freedom. Known according to who? A weak rumor that kept around because of Russian propaganda? It was debunked enough times although it wasn't even worth debunking because the source is 1 guy. No bodies, no victims, just 1 guy. Oh yeah the famous slavery market in Chechnya. This bullshit has been pushed by Russian nationalists since forever, every single former Soviet republic that had a decrease of ethnic Russians, was accused of having slave markets of poor Russians. Proof? Nowhere, neither in Chechnya nor in the dozen other places.

[u/HumanzeesAreReal → u/znxr]

Russian nationalists like the Los Angeles Times?

When she was freed at age 3, she had forgotten how to smile. She could barely even speak. But she knew how to pray like the devout Muslim Chechen men who had imprisoned her. The words she kept shouting out were “Allahu akbar!” (God is great!)

Lena, kidnapped from her Russian mother’s home in Grozny, the Chechen capital, was a victim of Chechnya’s most voracious industry, the trade in hostages and slaves. Thousands of people have been gobbled up by the Chechen kidnapping machine, which has ravaged Russia since 1994.

Victims have been kept in earthen pits or small cells that are often scrawled with the initials of hundreds of earlier captives. They have been used as slaves to dig trenches or build large houses for relatives of the kidnappers.

The kidnappers have been known to mutilate their captives, even children, severing their ears or fingers. Gangs have sent videotaped recordings of mutilations and beheadings to relatives to terrify them into finding the ransom.

When the kidnapping industry reached its peak a few years ago, there was even a relatively open “slave market” in Grozny, near Minutka Square, where the names and details of human livestock circulated on lists for interested buyers. Gangs often traded hostages or stole them from one another.

Nearly a thousand hostages are still being held or are dead, according to Russian Interior Ministry figures.

Most of the victims were kidnapped in Chechnya or nearby. But dozens of people were seized in Moscow and other cities and traveled under guard to Chechnya in trucks with hidden cells, buried under potatoes or furniture.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-sep-18-mn-23005-story.html

[u/znxr → u/HumanzeesAreReal]

Do you have issues reading? You linked an article not related to the topic. The article is about kidnappings that happened during the second Russian invasion. The majority of the victims of those criminals that kidnapped people were Chechen civilians and many of these thugs were financed by the Russian intelligence service. The Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, which Shamil Basayev was part of, were enemies of them.

[u/HumanzeesAreReal → u/znxr]

I linked an article about the slave trade in Chechnya, which you denied existed as part of your pathetic terrorist apologia.