Paul
Goble
Staunton, November 3 – The events in
Ingushetia over the last year, including the protests by the population and the
repressions against them, are part of an ongoing “civil war” in the region,
according to Lev Ponomaryev, whose For Human Rights organization was just
disbanded by the Russian Supreme Court.
What is taking place there now, he
continue in a comment to Kavkaz-Uzel, involves something that did not
occur in Soviet times: mass protests and the refusal of some police to use
force to disperse them; and that in turn
is part of something larger, a civil war that has been going on for several
years (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/341939/).
“There are still armed people in the
mountains, although it is unclear how many of them there are,” Ponomaryev says.
“On the other hand, from time to time, people are kidnapped and killed.” The
only thing positive one can say is that the general level of force has fallen, “except
for the persecution of gays in Chechnya.”
Meanwhile, Ingush continue to
collect money to support those of their number who are still behind bars for
participating in the protests (zamanho.com/?p=14605);
and the police have announced that they are looking for three men suspected of
being behind the killing in Moscow of Ingush counter-terrorist official Ibragim
Eldzharkiyev and his brother (zamanho.com/?p=14596).
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