03 October 2007, 11:50
Refugees' village in North Ossetia remains without gas, electricity and water
On October 2, supplies of electricity, gas and water were cut off the Novy settlement in the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia, inhabited by several thousands of forced migrants from the Prigorodny District of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Ingushes by nationality.
"Yesterday, in the Novy settlement in the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia, where several months ago the forced migrants, who had lived in the refugees' camp located in the Maiskiy settlement, were removed in the 'voluntary-compulsory' manner, supplies of gas, water and electricity were stopped for unknown reasons," Aslambek Apaev, Chairman of the Committee for Defence of Forced Migrants' Rights and an expert of the Moscow Helsinki Group for Northern Caucasus, has told today in his telephone conversation with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent and added:
"For 15 years already, the forced migrants from the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia cannot restore their trampled constitutional rights. They are not allowed to return to their former residence, they are not issued passports, they are rejected registration, and so on.
Our Committee receives plenty of applications from forced migrants with complaints against the actions of the authorities. In this connection, we are going to prepare the corresponding documents for subsequent applications to the Strasbourg Court for Human Rights."
Author: Sultan Abubakarov, CK correspondent
