Georgia Denies Existence Of Chechen Resistance Fighters On Its Territory
Georgian Foreign Ministry official Zurab Kachkachishvili rejected
on April 27 as a provocation Russian claims that the counterterrorism
regime imposed in several districts of southeastern Chechnya last week
was necessitated by the danger that Chechen militants currently based
in Georgia might seek to cross the border into Chechnya to stage
terrorist attacks there.
Russia's National Counterterrorism
Committee announced on April 16 the official end of the counterterror
operation launched in Chechnya by then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin
10 years earlier. But within days, the Russian military commandant's
office in Chechnya announced the reimposition of counterterror
restrictions in the Vedeno and Itum-Kale raions of southern Chechnya.
Vedeno borders on Daghestan, while Itum-Kale, to the west of Vedeno,
borders on Georgia.
A spokesman for the Russian military claimed
on ...
Since the 1990s more than 500,000 people have left Chechnya due to two Russian campaigns against the region. Russian sources state that 350,000 of these have now returned. In 2009 760 families, more than 3,000 people, have returned from neighbouring Ingushetia.
Recently, Russian sources have stated that 90 refugees from Chechnya residing temporarily in Georgia have applied to return to their homeland.
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