Poetic Obituaries: The sword attack was revenge

for a 2008 poem by Shamil Dzhikayev denouncing Muslim pilgrims on Hajj who purportedly urinated on a memorial to children slain during the Beslan school siege in 2004, Chechnyatoday.com reported.

from The Moscow Times: Samurai Sword Used to Slay Poet
then Interfax: Eleven Muslims detained in relation to murder of North Ossetian poet

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