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Thursday, 24 March 2005
OWNER OF HOUSE IN WHICH CHECHEN LEADER WAS KILLED FOUND DEAD
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 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. (RFE/RL)