Chechen Rebel Says Warlord Will Be Tried for Beslan

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Chechen Rebel Says Warlord Will Be Tried for Beslan

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-russia-chechnya.html

"Chechnya's rebel leader said on Friday he would put warlord Shamil Basayev on trial one day for the mass hostage-seizing at a Russian school in which more than 320 people were killed, half of them children.

"I responsibly announce that after the end of the war, individuals guilty of conducting illegal acts, including Shamil Basayev, will be passed to a court of law,'' said Aslan Maskhadov in a statement reacting to Basayev's claim to have masterminded the raid in Beslan.

Maskhadov appeared to be suggesting he would punish Basayev under Islamic sharia law which he introduced when he was president of a de facto independent Chechnya for more than two years in the late 1990s.

Despite Maskhadov's statement denying any link with the Beslan attack, Russian officials have put a $10 million bounty on both him and Basayev and continued on Friday to assert the two had been hand-in-glove in the bloody operation.

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Other related stories and reports in recent days:

In Beslan's Wake, Ancient Hatreds May Boil Over -- Ossetians Blame Ingushis for Killings
http://www.iht.com/articles/539756.html

A police state minus the police -- Putin and Russia take no responsibility for North Ossetia, though they still want it in the fold
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1310472,00.html

Russia uses KGB playbook on press -- Reporters covering Beslan say they were drugged by officials
http://search.csmonitor.com/search_content/0921/p01s03-woeu.html

Putin Reforms Cause North Caucasus Anxiety -- Abolition of direct elections in the North Caucasus likely to deepen bureaucratic feuds and corruption
http://www.chechentimes.org/en/press/?id=21898

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