Supian Ependiyev
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Supian Ependiyev was a veteran correspondent and editor-in-chief for the independent Chechen weekly Groznensky Rabochy, who was killed in a Russian army's rocket attack on the Chechen capital, Grozny. [1]
Ependiyev was the first journalist to be killed while covering the second Russian military campaign in the Chechen Republic. During the first military campaign against Chechnya (November 1994 to September 1996) twenty journalists were killed. [2]
[edit] Death
On the evening of October 27, 1999, several short-range ballistic missile hit a crowded outdoor market in central Grozny, killing or wounding hundreds of people. About an hour after the attack, Ependiyev went to the scene to cover the carnage for his paper. As he was leaving the site, a new round of rockets fell about 200 meters from the bazaar.
Ependiyev suffered severe shrapnel wounds and died in a Grozny hospital the next morning. [3] According to other sources, he died two days later. [4]
