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EspañolARBI BARAYEV
'Arbi Alautdinovich Barayev' (Chechen: 'Арби Алаутдинович Бараев') (1973 - June 23, 2001), also known as '"The Terminator"', was a Chechen warlord and renegade leader of Special Purpose Islamic Regiment, a militant Chechen rebel group. Barayev is believed to have ordered the executions of three Britons and a New Zealander, kidnapped in 1998, and was reported to have boasted that he had personally killed 170 people.
In 2002 he was reported killed in battle in his hometown of Alkhan-Kala near Grozny. Arbi Barayev was the uncle of Movsar Barayev, who was a key figure in the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis.
Barayev and his associates were known for brutal killings and kidnappings, as well as possibly two attempts to assassinate Aslan Maskhadov.
In 1997, Maskhadov signed a decree putting the Batayev's regiment under the command of the Chechen interior ministry. However, Barayev refused to obey the order, and his battalion fought with Maskahdov's men outside the town of Gudermes in the summer of 1998. Around 80 people were killed and more than a hundred were wounded. The Islamic regiment was not disarmed.[1]
Barayev and his group were commonly accused of shooting dead six International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) nurses in the ICRC hospital of Novye Atagi in 1996 and of decapitating four Granger Telecom engineers in 1998. It was claimed that the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) outbid the employers of kidnapped Briton engineers to get them decapitated by Barayev and his gang rather than be released. Supposedly the video and photographic materials of their executions fed FSB propaganda efforts at beginning of Second Chechen War.[1]
It was also claimed that Barayev betrayed Ruslan Gelayev and his rebels to the Russian military forces in 2000, resulting in the massacre of rebel forces in the battle of Komsomolskoye. The incident led to the vendetta declaration on the part of Gelayev, whose fighters then blew up several houses used by Barayev's group in Alkhan-Kala and killed a number of his men. Through the early Second Chechen War Barayev freely lived in Alkhan-Kala and passed through Russian military checkpoints without any problems. In May 2000, GRU serviceman leaked papers about Barayev's affiliation with FSB to a Chechen journalist. He also reportedly sent a group of his fighters to train in Taliban-controlled areas of Afghanistan in the spring of 2001.[2]
Chechen surgeon Khassan Baiev described Arbi Barayev as "''a born killer, and his men were desperados with blood vendettas proclaimed against them for murder. They joined Barayev for protection against the avengers in an endless cycle of violence... He owned a stable of expensive foreign cars, had several wives, and moved around with an escort of twenty to thirty guards. Everyone assumed that he was in the pay of Russian intelligence.''"[2]
Relatives of Arbi Barayev publicly denounced him for his crimes, saying that "the family announced in the courtyard of the mosque that if anyone killed him, they would relinquish all claims. There would be no blood revenge." (Meaning no vendetta, according to the rules of adat.)
After the suspicious death of FSB chief Vice-Admiral German Ugryumov, who allegedly provided cover (''krysha'') for Barayev, GRU decided to get rid of him. In a well-prepared operation, Chechen GRU agents made arrest of Barayev after storming an FSB base where he ran for cover, killing an FSB agent in the process.
According to some reports, Barayev died at the Khankala military base after long torture.
1. The Security Organs of the Russian Federation. A Brief History 1991-2004 by Jonathan Littell, Psan Publishing House 2006.
2. Khassan Baiev, Ruth Daniloff. ''The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire.'' Walker & Company. 2004. ISBN 0-802-71404-8. (Khassan Baiev is a surgeon who amputated leg of Shamil Basayev after his injury on a mine field and operated on Salman Raduev and rbi Barayev himself. However, Barayev promised to kill Baiev because he always also helped wounded Russian soldiers if necessary).
★ Movsar Barayev
★ Rebel leader's notorious family BBC News
In 2002 he was reported killed in battle in his hometown of Alkhan-Kala near Grozny. Arbi Barayev was the uncle of Movsar Barayev, who was a key figure in the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis.
| Contents |
| Life |
| Death |
| Notes |
| See also |
| External links |
Life
Barayev and his associates were known for brutal killings and kidnappings, as well as possibly two attempts to assassinate Aslan Maskhadov.
In 1997, Maskhadov signed a decree putting the Batayev's regiment under the command of the Chechen interior ministry. However, Barayev refused to obey the order, and his battalion fought with Maskahdov's men outside the town of Gudermes in the summer of 1998. Around 80 people were killed and more than a hundred were wounded. The Islamic regiment was not disarmed.[1]
Barayev and his group were commonly accused of shooting dead six International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) nurses in the ICRC hospital of Novye Atagi in 1996 and of decapitating four Granger Telecom engineers in 1998. It was claimed that the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) outbid the employers of kidnapped Briton engineers to get them decapitated by Barayev and his gang rather than be released. Supposedly the video and photographic materials of their executions fed FSB propaganda efforts at beginning of Second Chechen War.[1]
It was also claimed that Barayev betrayed Ruslan Gelayev and his rebels to the Russian military forces in 2000, resulting in the massacre of rebel forces in the battle of Komsomolskoye. The incident led to the vendetta declaration on the part of Gelayev, whose fighters then blew up several houses used by Barayev's group in Alkhan-Kala and killed a number of his men. Through the early Second Chechen War Barayev freely lived in Alkhan-Kala and passed through Russian military checkpoints without any problems. In May 2000, GRU serviceman leaked papers about Barayev's affiliation with FSB to a Chechen journalist. He also reportedly sent a group of his fighters to train in Taliban-controlled areas of Afghanistan in the spring of 2001.[2]
Chechen surgeon Khassan Baiev described Arbi Barayev as "''a born killer, and his men were desperados with blood vendettas proclaimed against them for murder. They joined Barayev for protection against the avengers in an endless cycle of violence... He owned a stable of expensive foreign cars, had several wives, and moved around with an escort of twenty to thirty guards. Everyone assumed that he was in the pay of Russian intelligence.''"[2]
Relatives of Arbi Barayev publicly denounced him for his crimes, saying that "the family announced in the courtyard of the mosque that if anyone killed him, they would relinquish all claims. There would be no blood revenge." (Meaning no vendetta, according to the rules of adat.)
Death
After the suspicious death of FSB chief Vice-Admiral German Ugryumov, who allegedly provided cover (''krysha'') for Barayev, GRU decided to get rid of him. In a well-prepared operation, Chechen GRU agents made arrest of Barayev after storming an FSB base where he ran for cover, killing an FSB agent in the process.
According to some reports, Barayev died at the Khankala military base after long torture.
Notes
1. The Security Organs of the Russian Federation. A Brief History 1991-2004 by Jonathan Littell, Psan Publishing House 2006.
2. Khassan Baiev, Ruth Daniloff. ''The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire.'' Walker & Company. 2004. ISBN 0-802-71404-8. (Khassan Baiev is a surgeon who amputated leg of Shamil Basayev after his injury on a mine field and operated on Salman Raduev and rbi Barayev himself. However, Barayev promised to kill Baiev because he always also helped wounded Russian soldiers if necessary).
See also
★ Movsar Barayev
External links
★ Rebel leader's notorious family BBC News
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