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Date Posted: 11:57:34 12/18/02 Wed
Author: Buffy's vampire
Subject: Please remember not to complain

The Americans and Poms do not have an exclusive on bullshit, you know. Take these Russkies, for example.

Russian officials denied on Sunday that former Chechen warlord Salman Raduyev, found dead in a jail where he was serving a life sentence, had been beaten to death.

Raduyev, 35, convicted for taking more than 2 000 people hostage in 1996, died on Saturday in a high-security prison in the Perm region of the Urals after internal haemorrhaging, officials said.

His remains will not be returned to his family, a source said. "We are currently seeking to establish the cause of death," said Deputy Justice Minister Yury Kalinin.

But he denied the prisoner had been beaten to death. "Nobody touched him, not a finger was laid on him," the ITAR-Tass news agency quoted Kalinin as saying. "The health ministry forensic specialist can testify to that."

Chechnya's separatist presidency accused the Russian authorities of killing Raduyev. "The moratorium on the death penalty does not exist for Chechens," a representative for the presidency told AFP by telephone.

He said if another leading Chechen separatist, Akhmed Zakeyev, is extradited from Britain to Russia as Moscow is demanding, he would meet the same fate.

Raduyev was given a life sentence last December for the hostage taking at a hospital in Kizlyar in Dagestan, next to the breakaway southern Russian republic of Chechnya.

The episode ended in a bloodbath with 78 dead in a shootout with Russian federal forces at Pervomayskoye on the Chechnya-Dagestan border.

The hostage-takers, who broke through to safety in Chechnya, released their prisoners. Raduyev's defence was that his aim had been to force Russia to sue for peace in Chechnya.

Kalinin said Raduyev's death appeared to be due to "the many complaints he suffered from."

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