Refugees in Ingushetia state poor living conditions

The forced resettlers from Chechnya and North Ossetia, who live in Ingushetia in temporary accommodation centres (TACs), assert that their long years spent in trailers have undermined their health.

The refugees, residing in Ingushetia, who have not returned to their former homes or have not been able to obtain housing, are living in trailers or panel wooden houses, where several persons have to cram in one room. Unsanitary conditions and lack of any modern conveniences are telling on their health, say the doctors of medical institutions, to whom TAC dwellers regularly apply.

"Through all these years, we've experienced such hardship, that we don't want to live. We are living in appalling conditions, when our children and we live in one room, where it is very cold in winter. In summer, we suffer from impossible swelter and various gnats. In such circumstances, we are often sick. Are these human conditions? We received promises by the authorities that we should receive funds on a monthly basis to rent decent housing. That's why we sit here and wait," Lemka Murzabekova, a resident of a TAC, located in the Nazran District, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Magomed Evloev has been living for 19 years already in a hastily assembled plank house, where the room of 5 x 6 meters house seven persons.

"There should be an end to all this. Today we have no housing, but we promised that we'd have our houses built. However, also before that I'd like to live in normal conditions; therefore, we welcomed the news that we'd receive the money to rent decent housing. I wouldn't stay a day in this barn, if I could pay the rent," said Magomed Evloev.

The Ministry for Nationalities' Matters of Ingushetia has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the refugees will receive money for leasing temporary houses, while their own ones are being built.