Today in Budyonnovsk, a town in Stavropol Krai, to commemorate those killed in 1995 when exactly 25 years ago, armed militants under the command of Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev seized several hundred hostages. This was a bloody terrorist act in the history of modern Russia.
Budyonnovsk, most of the locals which even a quarter century later remember the events of those bloody days, will honor the memory of victims minute of silence. From year to year it takes place at exactly 12.20. It was at this time 14 July 1995, more than 160 militants entered the city and captured about 1600 residents who were driven to a local hospital. In the result of an armed attack killed 129 people, including 18 policemen and 17 soldiers. Injured 415.
For this crime the court was convicted and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, more than 30 militants. The organizer of the attack, Basayev was killed during a special operation in Ingushetia in 2006. Most of the bandits who attacked in June 1995, the peaceful city, were eliminated by the entrance of fighting and special operations.
Sunday morning, the residents of Budennovsk, military, law enforcement and security agencies, veterans of the special forces, the authorities in Stavropol region have already started to bring flowers to the memorial near the interior Ministry building, as well as to the Central district hospital, where for six days the militants held the hostages.
on the Morning of June 14, 195 armed militants under the command of Basayev broke with the territory of Dagestan and captured more than 1500 local residents, employees of law enforcement and the military. All of them drove to the hospital. Those who resisted and tried to escape, were shot.
After the failed storming of the building on 17 June and negotiations on 19 June, the militants released the hostages. In response, the Russian government agreed to cease hostilities on the territory of Chechnya and allowed the attackers to return to the Republic.
during those events killed 147 people, about 500 were wounded.
As previously reported, 14 June at 12.20 held a moment of silence. And it can support even those who because of isolation can not come in Budennovsk.
It will be able to support all our readers. Even if it’s only a story – put in the day the alarm clock smartphone at 12.20. Light a candle. Remember victims.
