Defying Magas’ Effort to Shut It Down, Council of Teips Holds Congress

Paul Goble

            Staunton, November 9 – Today, representatives of the Council of Teips of the Ingush People met in Nazran in a private facility after Magas which along with Moscow has been trying to ban the organization so far unsuccessfully refused to allow it to assemble in any public building (zamanho.com/?p=14881).

            That the group met at all was a sign of the strength of both the teips in Ingush society and of the opposition to the border agreements that have cost the smallest federal subject (other than the two capitals) 35 percent of its land since 1991. But even more impressive were the messages of support it received from Ingush groups across the republic and abroad.

            Perhaps the most impressive of these came from the World Congress of the Ingush People and the Ingush Committee for National Unity. It congratulated the Council for holding its session and said that like the Council, the Congress and Committee believes that the Ingush people must take a firm stand on the restoration of earlier republic borders (fortanga.org/2019/11/privetstvennyj-adres-prezidiuma-vkin-i-ikne-k-delegatam-sezda-predstavitelej-tejpov-ingushskogo-naroda/).

            Meanwhile, two more Ingush detainees, Musa Malsagov and Barakh Chemurziyev, appealed to the European Court for Human Rights to examine their cases. Earlier, Akhmed Barakhoyev did the same (doshdu.com/dvoe-arestovannyh-liderov-protestov-v-ingushetii-podali-zhaloby-v-espch/  https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/342182/).