Paul
Goble
Staunton, September 19 -- The Council
of the Teips of the Ingush Republic has called on all Ingush to mark September
26, the first anniversary of the deal by which former republic head Yunus-Bek
Yevkurov gave away 10 percent of the republic’s land to Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov,
as the Day of National Traitors.
Calling that move “an act of national
betrayal of unprecedented cynicism” comparable to Stalin’s deportation of the
Ingush in 1944 and the their expulsion from Prigorodny district in 1992, the Council
said the nation will never forget those involved and that their names will
remain forever in “a black book” of betrayal (fortanga.org/2019/09/obshhestvo-predlagaet-26-sentyabrya-vspominat-natsionalnyh-predatelej-video/).
The Ingush people will never accept
this “illegal change in their territory,” the Council said, and “will seek by
all legal means the restoration of the territorial integrity of Ingushetia and
the liberation of all illegally arrested participants in the peaceful protest
actins” against this act of national betrayal.
In a second statement, the Council denounced
those who are trying to undermine the Ingush people by organizing “a so-called Vaynakh
congress” in Turkey, a move it said that was intended to reduce the status of
the World Congress of the Ingush People (fortanga.org/2019/09/sovet-tejpov-ingushetii-turetskij-kongress-ocherednoj-shag-po-zakrepleniyu-predatelstva-video/).
Meanwhile, in Moscow at the Sakharov
Center, a group of Ingush activists and their supporters held a press conference
at which they discussed what they called the Ingush Bolotnye Case and
the ways in which the Russian authorities have used Ingushetia as a testing ground
for their attacks on protesters elsewhere (fortanga.org/2019/09/v-moskve-proshla-press-konferentsiya-ingushskoe-bolotnoe-delo/
and 6portal.ru/posts/вадим-клювгант-власти-расследуют-инг/).
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