Security forces in Ingushetia launched a special operation today (April 13) in a portion of the republic’s Sunzha district where a group of militants was reportedly encircled. A group of around ten alleged militants were reportedly blockaded yesterday (April 12) in a wooded area near the Sunzha district settlements of Alkun, Muzhichi, Arshty, Dattykh and Galashki. A source in the republic’s security structure was quoted as saying that security forces fired on the area with mortars (www.ria.ru, www.kavkaz-uzel.ru, April 13).
Earlier, security forces launched a special operation against a group of militants discovered in a wooded area in the mountains on the administrative border between Chechnya and Ingushetia. On April 10, the Kavkazsky Uzel website quoted a source in the Chechen Interior Ministry as saying that the special operation had ended without results and ...
The head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov (Source: Reuters)
No one could have predicted a scandal would erupt when, on April 3, the Russian National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAK) reported that security forces had killed five rebels in Ingushetia’s main city, Nazran. The authorities acknowledged there was a woman among the slain rebels. According to government sources, security forces tried to stop the rebels’ car, but the militants opened fire on them and were killed by return fire. One of the men and the woman in the car were wearing "suicide belts” that together contained the equivalent of five kilograms of TNT in explosive force, which could not be safely discharged, the NAK asserted. It claimed that the security services actions had prevented a double suicide attack (http://ria.ru/defense_safety/20120403/617131007.html, April 3).
On March 26, the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, unexpectedly lashed out at the republic’s law enforcement agencies, demanding that they be fully in control of the situation in the republic. He called an extraordinary meeting of law enforcement officials and the relatives of Abubakar Tsechoev, who was kidnapped on March 22 (http://ingushetia.kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/203724/, March 26).
On March 22, an armed group of ten people wearing uniforms and masks sneaked into a water pump facility in the Ingush town of Ordzhnokidzevskaya, where Tsechoev and three coworkers were on duty. According to Tsechoev’s colleagues, the assailants tied them up and threatened to shoot them if they tried to move. Tsechoev himself was beaten up, handcuffed and taken away by the masked men, who reportedly spoke Russian. The assailants disabled ...
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