In Chechnya, seven families of forced migrants ousted out of TAC

Seven families were evicted from the Temporary Accommodation Centre (TAC) of forced migrants located in the Leninskiy District of Grozny. They have neither housing facilities nor opportunities to rent such.

"For about three years, we lived in the TAC 'Sabila' in Kalinin settlement located in the Leninskiy District of Grozny," - one of the residents of the former hostel for forced migrants told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. "It's a two-storey building at 96a Michurin Street. When we were brought there from Ingushetia, it was just bare walls and roof. <...> Last September we were ordered to abandon the occupied premises, because the Chechen Department of the Federal Migration Service (FMS) had failed to prolong the rental contract with the owner of the building that is, the FMS ceased giving money. Then, some families left, helped by administrations of their districts, to places of their permanent residence, but we stay here, as we have nowhere to go: our own houses had been ruined in the warfare, but nobody has provided us with other temporary accommodation," said the woman. "We, the seven families still at the TAC, addressed to all instances, to regional administrations, and even attended once a meeting with President Ramzan Kadyrov in Gudermes. He told us that nobody had the right to move us out of the TAC without providing other housing facilities. He said that new houses were built everywhere in the Republic, and anybody would stay without roof over one's head."

"In the morning on October 5, right on the day, when the Republic celebrated Ramzan Kadyrov's birthday and other holidays, certain Isa Dalaev and woman named Aishat appeared in our hostel. They demanded to immediately abandon the building, which allegedly belonged to them. When we asked them to show us the papers to confirm their title on building, or the court ruling about our eviction, she started using dirty words to abuse us, saying that she had waited to long and would now move us all out. Then, a team of workers, some 20 persons, whom they had brought with them, started working. They cut off gas and water lines in the rooms, disconnected electricity, started breaking windows to make the rooms cold, despite children in them who shouted and cried from fear; they crushed furniture. Our property was thrown out into the yard," said another woman-forced migrant from "Sabila".