Another Russian Province In Turmoil


Ingushetia Abuses 'May Spark War' -- BBC News

Russia's southern republic of Ingushetia is verging on civil war, a human rights group says, accusing officials of state-sponsored terror.

The Moscow Helsinki Group says the federal authorities in the Caucasus republic are engaged in kidnappings, torture and extra-judicial killings.

The authorities say they are fighting a war against terrorism.

Attacks against security forces - often carried out by Islamist militants - have intensified in Ingushetia.

Violence in the predominantly Muslim republic started during the war in neighbouring Chechnya in the late 1990s, when armed separatists began attacking government targets.

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More News On Ingushetia

Gunmen kill four soldiers in south Russia's Ingushetia -- RIA Novosti
Russian soldiers killed in Ingushetia -- ABC News (Australia)
Three killed, 2 wounded in Ingushetia, official targeted -- RIA Novosti
Bomb goes off at prosecutor’s house in Ingushetia -- ITAR Tass

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