Khozh-Ahmed Noukhayev

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Khozh-Ahmed Noukhayev in Moscow

Khozh-Ahmed Noukhayev (

Obshina
in Moscow and a prominent figure in Chechen politics. His whereabouts have been unknown since 2004.

Early life

He was born in exile (due to the

Solntsevo, and Balashikha) out of Moscow which allowed the Chechens to occupy the dominant position for some time.[1]

Activities during the Second Chechen War

Soon after the start of the

guerrilla warfare will continue for years. Noukhaev said the first step in the peace process should be establishment of an International Commission headed by such respected world figures as former President Jimmy Carter or former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to oversee the freeing of illegally detained persons on both sides.[2] It is believed by some[who?] that he also helped finance the militant groups of Ruslan Gelayev and Aslambek Abdulkhadzhiev. In 2001, Nukhaev first proposed the controversial idea (among both his allies and enemies) of splitting Chechnya into a northern Russian half and a southern de facto, but not de jure Ichkerian half. That same year Nukhaev founded the inter-teip movement Nokhchi-Latta-Islam, and politician Aleksandr Dugin was also working with him during this time.[3]

Book by Paul Klebnikov

Noukhaev was the subject of a book entitled Conversation with a Barbarian: Interviews with a Chechen Field Commander on Banditry and Islam by the late American/Russian journalist Paul Klebnikov. The book is based on interviews with Noukhaev conducted by Klebnikov in Baku, Azerbaijan. In it, Noukhaev discusses his past, including his involvement in criminal activities in Moscow and creating Caucasian Common Market. He also argues for the superiority of the Chechen and Islamic clan/tribal-based social system, while Klebnikov argues for an opposite position. After Klebnikov's murder in Moscow in 2004, it was alleged that Noukhaev had ordered the killing in retaliation for his negative portrayal in this book. Several Chechens were charged with carrying out the killing on Noukhayev's orders but all were subsequently acquitted at trial.

Political activities in Russia

After April 2001, he became actively involved in work of Eurasia Party led by Russian nationalist Aleksandr Dugin, despite being officially wanted by police.[4] On June 28, 2001, he appeared on the Dugin party's press conference in Moscow to propose that Chechnya be divided into North Chechnya (the plains region within the frame of the Russian Federation) and South Chechnya (the mountain region largely independent from Russia, but still closely bonded to Russia and fiercely hostile to "Wahhabism", that is Islamic fundamentalism).

Possible death in the mountains of Dagestan

Khozh-Akhmed Noukhaev stayed in Azerbaijan for an extended period of time following the outbreak of the Second Chechen War. It is from there that he posted updates to the internet site named after him, noukhaev.com. According to some sources, Noukhaev secretly returned to Chechnya in late 2003. He supposedly convinced Ruslan Gelayev to cross Dagestan into Georgia and was with a group of Gelayev's fighters when they were surrounded in the mountains during the winter of 2003-2004. According to an unofficial version of events, Gelayev's men were taken captive or killed, and on December 28, 2003, Gelayev himself was killed as a result of gunfire and a landslide or avalanche reportedly caused by rockets that were fired from a helicopter. Several sources speculate that Noukhaev was killed alongside the fighters, although a different version of events maintains that he was neither captured nor killed. In support of the first version is the circumstantial evidence that both Ichkeria and Mekh-Kell are no longer being published. Furthermore, there have been no new book-brochures by Noukhaev about Russian-Chechen and international relations, or promoting of his opinions on the future of Chechnya. These book-brochures were brought from Azerbaijan and can sometimes still be found in the markets of Grozny and Nazran.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Aleksandr Zhilin, The Shadow of Chechen Crime Over Moscow, The Jamestown Foundation 1999
  2. ^ John Adams Associates, December 10, 1999
  3. Gazeta.ru
    », 23.09.2011 (in Russian)
  4. ^ Russian political parties and antisemitism Archived 2009-10-14 at the Wayback Machine, by SOVA Center, Moscow
  5. ^ Chechen Society Newspaper No. 12, June 2005

External links

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