Paul
Goble
Staunton, May 12 – After calling on
Ingush abroad to organize to save Ingushetia’s territorial integrity and status
as a republic (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2019/05/pogorov-sought-by-police-calls-for.html),
Akhmed Pogorov, vice president of the World Congress of the Ingush People
sought by the police, has now issued a video appeal to the Ingush of Ingushetia.
In it, he says that Yevkurov has rejected
the desire of Ingush civic society to improve the social and political
situation in the republic and brought in siloviki from across Russia to pacify
the Ingush people and stage provocations that would justify his use of force
against the people (fortanga.org/2019/05/ahmed-pogorov-obratilsya-k-zhitelyam-ingushetii/).
The activist, now in hiding
somewhere inside Ingushetia, has called on public organizations to remain
disciplined and to continue to fight for the ouster of Yevkurov and the return
of Ingush lands “exclusively” by peaceful means, lest they fall into the kind
of trap that Yevkurov and Moscow have set for them.
Meanwhile, activists and lawyers
report, Ismail Nalgiyev, the Ingush activist who was forcibly returned from
Belarus, is now in Nalchik and has been charged not with an administrative
violation but with the crime of using force against officials (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/335339/
and kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/335350/).
A conviction on those charges would
likely lead to a serious prison term, something that by itself could trigger a new
round of protests in Ingushetia.
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