Chechen rebel leader pledges to put warlord Basayev on trial

0 Comments | AFP, September, 2004

MOSCOW (AFP) — Chechnya's rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov said that warlord Shamil Basayev would be put on trial for masterminding the hostage siege in Beslan which killed more than 330 people, once fighting has stopped in the breakaway republic.

"Unfortunately, in conditions of war it is practically impossible to bring people guilty for such terrorist acts to justice," the former Chechen president said in a statement on a rebel website, www.chechenpress.com.

"However, I responsibly announce that after the end of the war, individuals guilty of illegal acts will be handed over to a court, including Shamil Basayev," he added.

Basayev has claimed responsibility for the three-day hostage taking earlier this month at a school in Beslan, southern Russia, in which at...

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