The 13^th anniversary of Chechen leader Aslan Maskhadov's martyrdom was on Thursday... Maskhadov, an important figure in the Chechen resistance, was martyred in 2005.

Between 1944 and 1957, no Chechen in the world was born in their land.

Aslan Maskhadov was born in Kazakhstan in 1951 just like all the kin of this generation.

His family lived in 1944 exile with all its mercilessness.

Maskhadov returned to Chechnya in 1957 when he was 6 years old. In 1972, he graduated from Tbilisi military artillery academy. He served in some regions of the Russian Federation and in Hungary and Lithuania.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he was invited to join resistance started by Dzhokhar Dudayev to defend his country Chechnya.

Aslan Maskhadov left his post in the Russian army in 1992 and entered into the service of the country Chechnya, became the chief of the general staff.

Maskhadov played a major role in winning the first Russian-Chechen War, which ended in 1996.

After Dudayev being martyred, the president of Chechnya, Maskhadov, continued the jihad in Chechnya.

In 1999, after the Russians launched the Second Chechen war, Maskhadov started the guerrilla war against Russia.

On March 8, 2005, Mashadov was martyred together with some Chechen commanders in a raid of special Russian Spetnaz squad carried out on Tolstoy-Yurt town. (ILKHA)