Since
September 1 'Bella' refugee tent camp must be pulled down by the order
# 234449 of Yunash I. B., the head of the IM Federal Migration Control
Service.
Such announcement signed by administrator of the camp was displayed
to view in 'Bella' camp located in Ordjonikidzevskaya village. On September
1 Akhmed Parchiyev, the head of the Interior Ministry migration department
of Ingushetia and Mr. Pomeschenko, a representative of the Federal Migration
Service as well as activists of the Chechen Committee for refugees visited
the camp.
"They arrived in several cars with an armored vehicle as convoy," told
the inhabitants of the camp. "They have given us a week to abandon the
camp. Otherwise, as those officials warned, we would be forced out of
here. They did not offered us any option, where to go."
The Chechen refugees are extremely disturbed by the situation. They
consider the attempt made by the officials to get "Bella" camp removed
as a bit by bit process of deportation of the Chechen refugees from
Ingushetia.
Nevertheless, the authorities of Ingushetia ruled out any possibility
the refugees would ever be forced out. They acknowledged the 'Bella'
camp had been planned to be removed very soon, but after all the authorities
of Ingushetia are not going to push the refugees, Ali Daud Parov, the
chief of Ingushetia's migration service department was quoted as saying
in his interview with the Caucasus Times correspondent .
The decision was due to a small number (slightly above 700 who actually
made their mind to go back to Chechnya) of residents remained in the
camp, Parov reasons, so it turns out unreasonable to waste money for
supplying the small settlement with gas and power. He added the refugees
have no reasons to be uneasy. If the refugees would want to stay they
are allowed to settle in any camp in Ingushetia." he said.
The official noted just an application is to be submitted to the Migration
Service office of Ingushetia to stay in the republic.