In Budennovsk on Sunday commemorated the victims of the raid, perfect detachment warlord Shamil Basayev in the middle of the first Chechen war, June 14, 1995. Basayev’s group and captured for six days held hostage in a local hospital about 1.5 thousand. Residents. After an unsuccessful assault and lengthy negotiations provided a corridor for terrorists to enter the territory of Chechnya. Waste Basayev continued to hold about a hundred hostages. The attack killed about 100 local residents, 18 policemen and 17 soldiers. For the city, it was a terrible tragedy and turmoil, of which people are not forgotten so far.
Events to commemorate the victims of the events of 20 years ago began in Budennovsk Sunday at seven in the morning with the procession. It took part in it, including former hostages Basayev. People held a procession on the streets, which 20 years ago, gunmen chased their victims toward the hospital. According to the recollections of participants in those events, this way can be called the road of death: those who do not want to go, or tried to escape, the militants shot on the spot. At the hospital, where six days Basayev and his party held more than 1.5 thousand. Hostages, the participants of the procession marched through the Memory Alley, and then took part in a two-hour divine liturgy. The worship in the hospital attended Bishop of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk, Budennovsk and Praskoveisky, Elista and Kalmykia dioceses. A memorial luncheon was organized on the hospital grounds in makeshift tents.
A memorial service was held at the building and the city department of the Interior Ministry. It was attended by about 300 people, including the leadership of the Stavropol Territory and the police. Head of the regional Department of Internal Affairs Alexander Oldak, speaking at the rally, said that the wounds that were inflicted people of the city, “no cure” and they continue to live “in the heart of each of us.” Alexander Yurchenko, head of the city wanted the audience that none of the younger generation has not experienced the horrors of terror, and to recognize it “only from history.” To the monument with the names of 18 dead policemen, who took the first blow on June 14 militants, they laid flowers and the air is released 18 white balloons. Flowers were also laid at the monument to helicopter pilots shot that went to the aid of the police, and the memorial with the names of all 129 who died in the bloody attack.
at 12:20 – this is the time when Basayev began to bombard city police department – the city was declared a minute of silence in memory of the victims. Funeral events in the city ended at the city cemetery. After the attack on June 14 each year, relatives and friends of the victims laying flowers on their graves.
On appeal in connection with the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack made Budennovsk and the head of Stavropol Vladimir Vladimirov, he noted, that for 20 years the pain at the inhabitants of the region “is not abated or even dull” and tragedies of this magnitude “no statute of limitations.” He described the terrible ideology of terrorism and called on the future of the younger generation not to forget “the bitter lessons of Budennovsk».
The attack resulted in the detachment of Shamil Basayev on Budennovsk in June 1995 killed 129 people, another 317 were injured varying degrees of severity, hostages were seized more than 1.5 thousand. residents of Budennovsk. In addition, it has been destroyed or damaged 198 cars burned house of children’s creativity, received significant damage building of the Central District Hospital, Department of Internal Affairs, the city administration, 107 households of individuals in total damage from the raid on the city of insurgents has made more than 95.619 billion non-denominated rubles . Militias had about 200 people, most of commanders, including Basayev himself, so far died.
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