INFORMATION CENTER OF THE SOCIETY OF RUSSIAN-CHECHEN FRIENDSHIP

Press release No. 326, December 16, 2002

Migrants from temporary camps in Ingushetia started dying of supercooling.
Danish Council members were forced to leave a migrant camp in Ingushetia.


Report from Ingushetia

Migrants from temporary camps in Ingushetia started dying of supercooling [undercooling]

In Ingushetia because of irregular supply of refugee camps with gas and electricity, many camps found themselves in a critical situation, which poses a threat to human lives and health. Migrants from tent camps are in the most serious state: because of low temperature and insufficient supply of food many people are ill and die of supercooling. For instance, Ali Ezirbaev, born in 1956, who lives in one of  administrative buildings of the town Karabulak, became a victim of severe frosts and
Migrant Service representatives who refused to provide refugee camps on the territory of Ingushetia with vitally important warmth. He was taken to the town hospital in a very serious state.

In the migrant camp "Bart", situated in the same settlement, a two-week-old baby died. His mother Tumisha Kukueva still cannot recover from shock..

(From our correspondent.).

Danish Council members were forced to leave a migrant camp in Ingushetia

On December 12, 2002. Danish Council members brought a few dozens of  new tents to the tent camp "Bart", situated in the town Karabulak, in order to change the old ones that have become absolutely unsuitable in the winter period. When a small part of humanitarian goods was unloaded, militiamen, Migrant Service representatives and the camp commandant Pliev ordered to stop it and leave the territory of the camp.

In spite of migrants' protests, the tent camp administration and law-enforcement servicemen forced Danish Council members to drive away. Still people managed to put some new tents over the old ones.

Camp residents demanded to explain why such an outrageous crime is committed when migrants started to bury children who had died of low temperature, when women and old people suffer from cold.

The camp commandant and soldiers answered that according to the order of higher institutions nothing can be done on the territory of the camp without special permission of Migrant Service in Ingushetia.

(From our correspondent.).

Editor in chief Stanislav Dmitriyevsky.
Editor of this edition Oksana Bazhina.

This edition has been put out with the support of The National  Endowment for Democracy, as part of their "Russian-Chechen Information Partnership".
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