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Sinless Surrender
Sultan Geliskhanov, chief of the state security department in time of Johar Dudaev’s cabinet, has voluntary surrendered in Chechnya. Until very recently, Geliskhanov had been close to Ichkeria’s leaders and had a big squadron of militants under command, claim enforcement bodies of Chechnya. According to spokesmen of Ichkeria, however, Colonel Geliskhanov is “a private person” and his surrender is rather an action of propaganda.
Accompanied by his elder brother Turpal, Sultan Geliskhanov showed up in the Gudermess police department on Monday at 2:30 p.m. The brothers were ordered to go to the interrogation department, where investigators executed the protocol of voluntary surrender.
Sultan Geliskhanov said he “had fallen into disappointment with the policy of Aslan Maskhadov and his mates long ago” but couldn’t believe in authorities’ promise not to prosecute former enemies. “Finally, I was persuaded by examples of my former combat fellows, who could live normally after the surrender.” According to Geliskhanov, he disagreed with the political course of Ichkeria’s authorities and wasn’t actively involved in combat actions in the first and the second military campaigns and stood aback from the separatist regime in the reconciliation time from 1996 to 1999.
“Geliskhanov has never been a warlord,” said Akhmed Zakaev, envoy of separatist Ichkeria’s president. The announced voluntary surrender of a powerful warlord is just an action of propaganda staged by Chechen authorities. “Believe me, Geliskhanov had never fired a shot at federals that war, so he has nothing to repent to federals.”
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All the Article in Russian as of Mar. 29, 2006
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