The Chechen

The Chechen is an antagonist in ''Batman: Red War. ''He was a Chechen drug lord in charge of the drug-trafficking operations in Gotham City.

Early Life
Born in the Russian federal republic of Chechnya to a mother and father he believed were a pair of weaklings and fools who deserved the squalor they lived in, the boy would grew up to become the Chechen witnessed many atrocities during the First Chechen War that started with his small nation's breakaway from Russia in 1994. He grew up realizing that the chaos grippling Chechnya could be turned to his advantage as it came to an end two years later, and obtained a lot of guns abandoned by fleeing Russian troops that enabled him to get followers and become one of the most feared and powerful men in his region. The Chechen was sure nothing could stop him, but was proven wrong when the Second Chechen War broke out in 1999, this time ending with the Russian's victory. Since that was fine with him because they seemed to have plenty of guns and rockets, the young dominator moved on into a career of supplying drugs to Russian troops because of him, money could be made out of such items despite authorities outlawing him.

One night, however, while he and his hireling delivered cocaine to a Major General, the police caught wind of the deal and arrived at the general's quarters to arrest them all. The Chechen, who was waiting in his car when hell broke loose and the driver was killed in its midst, was able to escape by rolling out of the car door with a machine pistol found under his seat in hand and ran into an alleyway, shooting and killing the four cops chasing after him as he turned around. After hiding in a culvert beneath a roadway for an hour until he was sure nobody was searching for him, the famed drug-seller hiked to a nearby airfield, where he made use of a computer to access bank accounts in the Bahamas. He obtained a private aircraft through a bribe and flew within a week to Mexico City, booking himself into a luxury hotel with doubt that the Russians would ever locate him there. But because the Chechen still liked doing business in the drug trade, he sought to re-establish his life somewhere in the United States. At first, he found it difficult to decide where in the country he could start in until he learned about Gotham City and it's high crime-rate.