24 November 2003, 14:37
Chechen refugees supplied with expired products
In the last several days, displaced persons returning to Chechnya have been receiving products with expired dates at a warehouse in the Ordzhonikidzevskaya village allocated by the Ingush Interior Ministry's migration department.
According to the refugees, they are being supplied with food rations that the department should have given them a year ago.
"The cans of stewed beef and condensed milk we have been given are inflated, as their expiry date was over a month ago. We can't eat that stuff, just have to throw them away," Kosum Israilov, a local man of the Samashki village, says.
Meanwhile, the Ingush migration department neither confirmed nor denied the information. "We are not charged to buy food rations for the refugees. We give everything allocated for our department to the refugees right away. The products are transported from Nalchik, therefore the purveyor is to be blamed," migration department officials explained.
Source: Caucasus Times Website
