By empty (3/24/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The owner of the house in Tolstoi-Yurt where Russian federal troops surrounded and killed Chechen President and resistance leader Aslan Maskhadov on 8 March has been found dead, Russian media reported on 24 March. His body reportedly bore signs of torture. Also on 24 March, a Grozny city council official told Interfax that it would be \"unethical\" to provide funds to rebuild the house, which was destroyed several days after Maskhadov\'s death.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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