Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has sparked controversy with remarks about a nineteenth-century chief of the North Caucasus resistance to Russian forces.
Kadyrov mentioned that Imam Shamil, an ethnic Avar from Daghestan, had along with his supporters compelled ethnic Chechens to combat in opposition t Russia for nearly two decades, before giving in and becoming a member of the Russian gentry.
due to this fact, Kadyrov claimed, Shamil had "provoked the annihilation of the Chechen individuals."
"What turned into it if not terrorism in opposition t the Chechen people?" Kadyrov spoke of.
His comments in an interview with the Chechnya these days information agency published on August 7 sparked a flurry of negative reaction on social media and in other places.
The non secular Directorate of Daghestan, a North Caucasus vicinity in Russia that borders Chechnya, puzzled Kadyrov's commentary praising Imam Shamil for his "wisdom" to give up and make contributions to bringing Daghestan and Chechnya below Russia's control in the nineteenth century.
"Offensive comments, insults of leaders and religious figures are a slap within the face to the total people," the commentary noted.
Kadyrov's interview additionally sparked protests on social media with many users inserting Imam Shamil's portrait as profile photographs to express protest.
Imam Shamil, who in 1840 changed into stated because the religious chief and ruler of Chechnya and Daghestan, led the North Caucasus forces against Russia until he changed into captured in 1859.
He died in Medina, now in Saudi Arabia, in 1871 after finishing the hajj, and changed into buried within the Jannatul Baqi, a historic graveyard in Medina the place many widespread figures of the Islamic world are buried.
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