The refugees protest passport checks in camps

INGUSHETIA, to October 23, Caucasus Times – Since the morning of October 23, the inhabitants of “Satsita” tent camp in Ordzhonikidzevskaya gathered spontaneously protesting against another registration of the resident in camp.

A joint team of employees of the Chechen committee on the refugees, and Migration service of Ingushetia arrived to conduct a planned passport check and register the residents who permanently live in the camp. The visit caused rage of locals. The people affirm the agency employees conduct such checks several days a week.

Dozens of the people poured out the streets and blocked all entries to the tents, preventing the members of commission to the tents. “Everyone, who appears to be absent at the moment will be removed from the refugee list by the Migration service. But we can not sit all day long in tents. We have to maintain our families, secure our children and to find work out there,” Khizhan Makueyeva, a local woman complains. “Now we are not supposed to go out there to earn some money?”

“We shall conduct checks as much as required to spot those absent, who are still registered in the lists, but actually do not live here and come to Ingushetia to get the humanitarian help,” said an employee of the Chechen Committee. “The registration is just a formal procedure for those who actually lives here.”

In the afternoon the commission managed to convince the people, there would be no unmotivated withdrawal from the refugee lists and the registration procedure was successfully completed.