RUSSIA

Spreading Despair:
Russian Abuses in Ingushetia

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Executive summary
   
   
2. Background
   
Note on Ingushetia
The Plight of Internally Displaced People in Ingushetia
The Security Situation in Ingushetia
Developments in Chechnya


3. The Spread of Abuses to Ingushetia
   
   Abuses During Special Operations in Settlements for Internally Displaced People
   Special operation in Nasyr-Kort settlement
   Special operation in Nesterovskaia settlement
   Special operation in Tanzilla settlement
   Special operation in Altievo settlement
   Abuses during Special Operations in Ingush villages
   Special operation in Arshty
   Special operation in Chemulga
   Attacks on Ingush Civilians
   Killing of Umar Zabiev, Wounding of Tamara Zabieva
   Wounding of Imran Guliev
   Response of the Authorities
   
   
4. Current Developments in Ingushetia: Continued Abuses and Renewed Pressure to Return
   
   
5. RECOMMENDATIONS
   
   To the Government of the Russian Federation:
   To the International Community:
   United Nations
   Council of Europe
   Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
   
   Acknowledgements

September 2003       Vol.15, No. 8(D)

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