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NAZRAN, February 23 (Itar-Tass) -- Ingushetia is holding mourning events dedicated to the tragic date – the 65th anniversary of the deportation of the peoples of Ingushetia and Chechnya.
The Ingush Scientific Research institute of Humanities named after Chakha Akhriyev held a scientific and practical conference devoted to the tragedy, the chief of the organizing committee for preparations and holding commemoration events, Magomed-Sali Aushev told Itar-Tass on Sunday. The replenished expositions entitled “Harsh February” opened at the memorial complex of the victims of political repressions and the republican local history museum in Nazran. The exhibitions dwelt on the horrible years of expulsion and those hardships, which Ingush and Chechen families were facing after the forced resettlement in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The Ingush national republican library opened an exposition of books telling about this tragic page in the history of both peoples. At schools and higher educational establishments students and young people are meeting with eyewitnesses of those events. The local television dedicated several TV programs to the issue.
The major commemoration events will be held in Ingushetia on Monday, Magomed-Sali Aushev said. On Monday morning, an authorized mourning rally will be held at the memorial complex to the victims of political repressions. On Monday evening, a commemoration evening will be held at the Nazran Palace of Culture. On Monday people will cut down the cattle and will give the sacrificial meat to the poor.
All police were put on alert over the commemoration events since Monday morning, a source in the Ingush Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass. Checkpoints on the administrative border of Ingushetia were reinforced, police patrols and mobile police groups, who ensure security of the population in settlements, were beefed up; all life-supporting facilities are put on special guard.
On February23, 1944, the peoples of Ingushetia and Chechnya were deported to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. About half of deported people died in the 13-year-long exile of famine, cold and diseases. Even those residents of the republics who were fighting during the Great Patriotic War and in the Red Army were also put into exile. | 
