Akhmad Kadyrov
Warlord, Politician
1951 – 2004
Who was Akhmad Kadyrov?
Akhmad Abdulkhamidovich Kadyrov, also spelled Akhmat, was the Chief Mufti of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in the 1990s during and after the First Chechen War. At the outbreak of the Second Chechen War he switched sides, offering his service to the Russian government, and later became the President of the Chechen Republic from 5 October 2003, acting as head of administration since July 2000.
On 9 May 2004, he was assassinated by Chechen Islamists in Grozny, using a bomb blast during a World War II memorial victory parade. His son, Ramzan Kadyrov, who led his father's militia, became one of his successors in March 2007 as the President of the Chechen Republic.
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- Born
- Aug 23, 1951
Karaganda - Children
- Religion
- Sufism
- Islam
- Ethnicity
- Chechen people
- Profession
- Lived in
- Karaganda
- Died
- May 9, 2004
Grozny
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on July 23, 2013
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