Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis
Hostages released from the hospital at Budyonnovsk
Location	Stavropol Krai, Russian Federation
Target(s)	Budyonnovsk
Date	June 14 - June 19, 1995
Attack type	Hostage crisis
Deaths	More than 140
Injured	More than 400
Perpetrator(s)	Shamil Basayev Aslambek Abdulkhadzhiev

The Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis took place from 14 June to 19 June 1995, when a group of more than 80 Chechen separatist fighters led by Shamil Basayev attacked the southern Russian city of Budyonnovsk (pop. 100,000), some 70 miles north of the border with the republic of Chechnya. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Stavropol Krai (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai). ... Budyonnovsk (Russian: ) is a town in Stavropol Krai, Russia. ... June 14 is the 165th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (166th in leap years), with 200 days remaining. ... June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 195 days remaining. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Shamil Basayev in Dagestan, 1999 Shamil Salmanovich Basayev (Russian: Шамиль Салманович Басаев) (January 14, 1965 – July 10, 2006) was a Vice-President of the internationally unrecognized separatist government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Islamist guerrilla leader, self-admitted terrorist and a national hero for many Chechens. ... General Aslambek Abdulkhadzhiev (d. ... Image File history File links RussiaStavropol2005. ... June 14 is the 165th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (166th in leap years), with 200 days remaining. ... June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 195 days remaining. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article covers the Chechen people as an ethnic group, not Chechen meaning citizens of Chechnya. ... Political separatism is a movement to obtain sovereignty and split a territory or group of people (usually a people with a distinctive national consciousness) from one another (or one nation from another; a colony from the metropolis). ... Shamil Basayev in Dagestan, 1999 Shamil Salmanovich Basayev (Russian: Шамиль Салманович Басаев) (January 14, 1965 – July 10, 2006) was a Vice-President of the internationally unrecognized separatist government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Islamist guerrilla leader, self-admitted terrorist and a national hero for many Chechens. ... Look up city, City in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Budyonnovsk (Russian: ) is a town in Stavropol Krai, Russia. ... Chechen Republic (IPA: ; Russian: , Chechenskaya Respublika; Chechen: , Noxçiyn Respublika), or, informally, Chechnya (; Russian: ; Chechen: , Noxçiyçö), sometimes referred to as Ichkeria, Chechnia, Chechenia or Noxçiyn, is a federal subject of Russia (a republic). ...

The rebel attack

The rebels crossed into the Stavropol Krai concealed in a military trucks supposedly transporting coffins from the war zone in Chechnya, while some others infiltrated the city in a small groups earlier. At about noon of June 14 they stormed the police station, city hall and government offices, where at least 20 policemen and soldiers were killed and 21 others wounded. Stavropol Krai (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai). ... A typical suburban police station in the United States (this one is in San Bruno, California). ... It has been suggested that Town Hall be merged into this article or section. ...

After several hours, in the face of a Russian reinforcement, the rebels retreated to the residential district and seized a hospital. In the city and the hospital they took between 1,500 and 1,800 hostages, most of them civilians and including 150 children [1] and women with newborn infants. A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ... Police often train to recover hostages taken by force, as in this exercise For the 2005 film, see Hostage (film). ... A civilian is a person who is not a member of a military. ...

Hostage crisis

Standoff

The hostage-takers issued an ultimatum threatening to kill the hostages unless their demands, including an end to the Chechen war and beginning of direct negotiations with Chechen rebel leadership, were met. Russian President Boris Yeltsin immediately vowed to do everything possible to free the hostages, denouncing the attack as "unprecedented in cynicism and cruelty."^{[citation needed]} An ultimatum (Latin: ) is a demand whose fulfillment is requested in a specified period of time and which is backed up by a threat to be followed through in case of noncompliance. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... List of Presidents of Russia Boris Yeltsin1 (July 10, 1991 – December 31, 1999) two terms. ... “Yeltsin” redirects here. ...

On June 15, Basayev demanded that journalists be let into the hospital building to conduct a press conference, but when Basayev found the Russian authorities to be too slow in granting his request, he ordered six hostages killed (three helicopter pilots, two police officers and an official of military registration and enlistment office). Only after this journalists were passed into the hospital. Fearing for their lives, the hospital staff helped other policemen and pilots disguise themselves in civilian clothes and to appear committed to the hospital by changing the hospital records.^{[citation needed]} June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A joint press conference by U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the White House. ... A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors consisting of two or more rotor blades. ... Aviators are people who fly aircraft either for pleasure or for a job. ... For the band, see The Police. ...

Chechen commanders enforced firm discipline among their men and reported to hostages that they will strictly punish subordinates for the least attempt at any violence. A member of Chechen force who was found to be threatening the hostages while under influence of narcotics was immediately shot.{^{[citation needed]} The Russians attempted various tactics to break the standoff, from threatening to execute 2,000 Chechen civilians to using Basayev's brother to talk him out of it.^{[citation needed]}

Russian attacks

After several days of siege, the Russian MVD and FSB OSNAZ special forces tried to storm the hospital compound at dawn on the fourth day, meeting fierce resistance. A woman connected to artificial respiration apparatus died during the assault when the electricity to the hospital was disconnected. After many hours of fighting wherein more than 30 hostages were killed, unable to avoid the grenades the Russians were throwing in through the shot-out windows, a ceasefire was agreed on and 227 hostages were released. Modern emblem of Russian MVD Russian Gendarme officers in the 1860s The Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del (MVD) (Министерство внутренних дел) was the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the imperial Russia, later USSR, and still bears the same name in the Russian Federation. ... FSB may stand for one of the following. ... A member of the OSNAZ MVD Rus team. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Wikibooks has a book on the topic of First Aid Artificial respiration is a technique for providing air for a person who is not breathing on their own, but whose heart is still beating. ... A ceasefire is a temporary stoppage of a war or any armed conflict, where each side of the conflict agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions. ...

A second Russian attempt to take control of the hospital few hours later also failed, resulting in more casualties. Russian authorities accused the Chechens of using the hostages as human shields. Human shield is a military term describing the use of civilians to deter an enemy from attacking certain targets—in particular military targets. ...

Resolution of the crisis

On June 18, negotiations between Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and Shamil Basayev led to a compromise which became a turning point for the First Chechen War. In exchange for the hostages, the Russian government agreed to temporarily halt military actions in Chechnya and begin a series of negotiations. June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. ... A prime minister is the most senior minister of a cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. ... Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin (Russian: Ви́ктор Степа́нович Черномы́рдин) (born April 9, 1938) is a Russian politician. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

The just-released hostages were especially angered by Boris Yeltsin's order to use force against the terrorists. [2] Yeltsin meanwhile had gone to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the summit of the Group of Seven was being held. After meeting with Yeltsin, the seven condemned violence on both sides of the Chechen conflict. Motto: {{Unhide = {{{}}}}} E Mari Merces (Wealth from the Sea) Logo: Location City Information Established: April 1, 1996 Area: urban area 79. ... Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit(Latin) One defends and the other conquers BC AB SK MB ON QC NB PE NS NL YT NT NU Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Regional Municipality Official languages English Government - Lieutenant-Governor Mayann E. Francis - Premier Rodney MacDonald (PC) Federal representation in Canadian... 1983 G-7 Economic Summit in Williamsburg, Virginia (left to right) Pierre Trudeau, Gaston Thorn, Helmut Kohl, François Mitterrand, Ronald Reagan, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Margaret Thatcher, Amintore Fanfani. ...

On June 19, most of the hostages were released, and Basayev's group, under cover of 120 volunteer hostages (including 16 journalists and 9 State Duma deputies), departed for, and uneventfully reached, the Chechen village of Zandak near Chechnya's border with Dagestan. After these hostages were released, Basayev, accompanied by some of the journalists, moved to village of Dargo, where he was welcomed as a hero. June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 195 days remaining. ... For other uses, see State Duma (disambiguation). ... The Republic of Dagestan IPA: (Russian: ; Avar: , Daɣistanłul Džumħuriyat), older spelling Daghestan, is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ...

Casualties

In all, at least 105 citizens of Budyonovsk died at the result of the attack, including 18 women.

At least 11 Russian policemen and minimum of 14 soldiers were also killed [3] and 19 wounded, not including special forces servicemen. The elite anti-terrorist Alpha Group suffered at least 3 killed and 6 wounded. Eleven members of Basayev's group also died; their corpses went back to Chechnya in a special freezer truck. Terrorism is a controversial term with multiple definitions. ... A member of the FSB Alpha Group, equipped with the silenced AS VAL assault rifle. ...

About 160 buildings in the town were destroyed or damaged. Around 400 people were wounded while being held hostage. [4] Many of the former hostages suffer from various forms of psychological wounds and traumas, and are being treated at a new facility in Budyonnovsk. Trauma can represent: Physical trauma, an often serious and body-altering physical injury, such as the removal of a limb. ...

Aftermath

Reacting to the perceived inept handling of the hostage situation, the lower house of the Russian parliament, the Duma, voted 241 to 72 in favour of an motion of no confidence of the government led by Viktor Chernomyrdin. The vote, however, was widely seen as purely symbolic, and the government did not step down. A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modelled after that of the United Kingdom. ... A motion of no confidence, also called a motion of non-confidence, a censure motion, a no-confidence motion, or simply a confidence motion, is a parliamentary motion traditionally put before a parliament by the opposition in the hope of defeating or embarrassing a government. ...

Two weeks after the raid, Shamil Basayev expressed regrets about the way the attack had turned out, and that he and his men "had turned into beasts." In the years following the hostage-taking, about 30 of the attackers, including Basayev, have been killed, and 19 were convicted by the Stavropol territorial court. In June 2005 about 40 were still wanted in Russia. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also

• First Chechen War
• Shamil Basayev
• Beslan school hostage crisis
• Kizlyar raid
• Moscow theater hostage crisis
• List of hostage crises

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External links

• Assault at High Noon Time, June 26, 1995
• Was It Just a Warning Shot? Pavel Felgenhauer, Moscow Times on October 31, 2002
• Buddenovsk Timeline (Russian)