17 June 2008, 14:40

US Helsinki Commission to assess situation in Ingushetia

On June 19 in Washington, representatives of the US Helsinki Commission and Russian experts on the Northern Caucasus will speak to a briefing on aggravation of situation in Ingushetia.

"After the end of the second Chechen war, the Northern Caucasus is again experiencing a splash of violence. Although instability is observed all over the region, Ingushetia causes a special awareness," runs the statement of the Commission for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

The Commission notes that throughout the year terror acts and counterterrorist operations have frequented in Ingushetia, same as illegal arrests, kidnappings and extrajudicial executions.

"The intensity level raises an issue that another war in the Northern Caucasus is quite probable," the statement says.

The briefing to the topic "Ingushetia: another hot point in Russian Northern Caucasus" appointed at 1:00 p.m. local time will be attended by Congressman Elsie Hastings, chairman of the Commission for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Senator Benjamin Cardan, co-chairman of the Commission, Magomed Mutsolgov, head of the Ingush human rights NGO named "MAShR", Gregory Shvedov, editor-in-chief of the Internet media "Caucasian Knot", and Eliza Musaeva, ex- head of the office of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" in Chechnya.

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