(30 Mar 2009)
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Hankala Airport, military base outside Grozny – September 16, 2007
1. STILL showing Sulim Yamadayev in uniform
2. STILL of Yamadayev in uniform
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Moscow – 30 March, 2009
3. Set-up shot of human rights activist Oleg Orlov
4. Close up of photo of Yamadayev seen on computer screen
5. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Oleg Orlov, Human rights activist:
“Sulim Yamadayev’s death strengthens the position of Ramzan Kadyrov in Chechnya and shows once again that there are no remarkable forces in the Chechen society – among the pro-federal forces – that could stand up against (Kadyrov).”
6. Pan of computer screen showing photos of Yamadayev
7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Oleg Orlov, Human rights activist:
“We shouldn’t ignore the fact that was discussed after the killing of Ruslan Yamadayev – it’s blood revenge. We should remember that there is a long line of murders, kidnappings, tortures and blood stretching after the Yamadayev clan. This can not be forgiven so easily on the Caucasus.”
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FILE: Moscow – 24 September 2008
8. Top shot of police vans and cars
9. High angle looking down to police vehicles and black car with body of Ruslan Yamadayev slumped behind wheel
10. Police
11. Tilt up from one bullet cartridge to another circled on ground
12. Top shot of police and investigators at the scene of shooting
STORYLINE:
Local and Russian news reports say a bitter foe of Chechnya’s Moscow-backed leader was shot at close range in one of Dubai’s most upscale
neighbourhoods in a brazen midday killing.
Sulim Yamadayev, a former Chechen rebel who went over to the government side, was killed on Saturday by an unidentified gunman outside the busy luxury residential complex where he lived along the city’s glitzy Gulf shoreline, Russian media reports said.
Dubai’s police chief said Saturday’s shooting “looks like an assassination.”
The Chechen “was assassinated in the parking lot of the building where he lives,” Tamim was quoted as saying on Saturday by the United Arab Emirates’ official news agency, WAM.
Yamadayev is a former separatist rebel leader who later went over to the government side and became leader of a military battalion in Chechnya made up of former rebels.
But Yamadayev fell out with Chechnya’s Kremlin-backed president, Ramzan Kadyrov, last year.
Kadyrov claimed battalion fighters were responsible for murders and abductions.
An arrest warrant was issued for Yamadayev, but it was later rescinded after battalion fighters reportedly joined Russian forces in last August’s war with Georgia.
Human rights activist, Oleg Orlov, said on Monday that Sulim’s death “strengthens the position of Ramzan Kadyrov in Chechnya and shows once again that there are no remarkable forces in the Chechen society – among the pro-federal forces – that could stand up against him.”
He added that “there is a long line of murders, kidnappings, tortures and blood stretching after the Yamadayev clan. This can not be forgiven so easily on the Caucasus.”
Yamadayev’s brother, Ruslan, was shot and killed in central Moscow in 2008.
An unidentified gunman fired on his vehicle when it stopped at a traffic light.
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