23:40, 18 May 2007

North Ossetia: refugees are forced out of temporary settlement

Today at 10 a.m. an unprecedented action of violent eviction of forced Ingush migrants was launched in the refugees' camp in Maiskiy settlement, North Ossetia. This news is the topic of the press release of the Chechen Committee of National Salvation (ChCNS) that arrived to the "Caucasian Knot" editorial board.

According to Aslanbek Apaev, Chairman of the Committee for Defence of Rights of Forced Migrants, the action was performed by up to three hundred law enforcement agents of North Ossetia, armed with automatic weapons, who began to break and take out the trailers, in which the Ingush refugees lived.

Under evidences of eyewitnesses, the majority of them were in masks and behaved extremely roughly and defiantly.

"None of the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia and Republic's leadership interfered into illegal actions of the authorities of North Ossetia," the refugees assert.