The Butcher of Chechnya Is Dead

Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin died today from heart failure at the age of 76. He will certainly not be missed by the people of Chechnya. In 1994, he launched a brutal invasion of Chechnya. Two years later, when the dust had settled, 80,000 to 100,000 Chechen civilians were killed, and 500,000 more were forced to become refugees.

No matter how much power, resources and wealth a ruler may have, as Allāh says in three places in the Qur’ān:

كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَائِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ

Kullu nafsin dhā’iqatu l-mawt.
Every soul shall taste death.

(Qur’ān, Sūrat Āli ‘Imrān, Āyah 185,
Sūrat al-Anbiyā’, Āyah 35,
and Sūrat al-‘Ankabūt, Āyah 57)

Read more:

• Wikipedia: First Chechen War