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No changes for internally displaced Ingushi persons from North Ossetia

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INGUSHETIA, October 23, Caucasus Times – According to data of Ingusheita state commission on refugees and internally displaced persons (from Prigorodny district) in the time span from January to October, 2003 at least 100 families (over 400 persons) have returned from Ingushetia to their homes on the territory of North Ossetia.

However, the observers consider the process has not undergone essential changes for in this year. As yet, the Ingushi refugees are allowed to return to the places, on permission of the authorities of Ossetian republic. The number of officially acceptable places to be settled by the Ingushi included several villages, Kurtat, Dachnoye, Kartsa, Chermen. As to the so-called “closed”, “restricted zones,” (South, Terk, Ir, Kambileyevskoye, etc.) the Ossetian authorities assert, the locals of Ossetian nationality are not yet ready to admit the Ingushi settlers there. In this year, not a single Ingushi family has returned over there.

“The agreements, as a rule, remain only ink on paper, not any real actions,” said a displaced person from Ir village Mukharbek. “We’ve lived for several years in these metal cars placed in the vicinity of Ir village and are not allowed to return to our private houses, just 100 meters from here. This summer a man attempted to settle in his own house in the village but eventually was force out by the local police.”

According to the displaced persons there are dozens of cases of those Ingushi people who tried to get back to their houses but in vain, because they were warned by locals and Ossetian police to get out of there, thus forcing the refugees to go back to the camps.

Malika Suleymanova, Caucasus Times, Ingushetia

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