194 Ë War and Dénouement
These events deeply traumatized some émigrés, such as Bammat. Abandoning all
political activity, he focused on the study of Islam in exile in Switzerland. Although
his former comrades who continued ghting for the liberation of the Caucasus sought
to persuade him to return to political life, Bammat refused, saying that he would not
want his compatriots in the Caucasus to pay for his actions abroad.⁹⁹Those who con-
tinued the ght did so under the completely dierent circumstances of the Cold War.
Meanwhile, defeated in August 1945, Japan no longer harbored any strategic interests
in the Caucasus, thus putting an end to its long relations with Caucasian ghters for
liberation.
99 See Mamoulia,Les combats indépendandistes des Caucasiens, 235.