Russian troops kill five in Kabardino Balkaria

Russian troops killed five suspected Caucasians in the restive north Caucasus region of Kabardino Balkaria, RIA Novosti reported.

Saturday, 28 August 2010 08:5

Russian troops killed five suspected Caucasians in the restive north Caucasus region of Kabardino Balkaria, RIA Novosti reported on Saturday.

The suspected fighters, besieged overnight in a five-storey residential building in the regional capital of Nalchik, were suspected of attacks on police, the news agency said.

The region has been largely untouched in recent years by the spreading anti-Russia movement in the mainly Muslim North Caucasus where low level insurgency still ccontinues after the Russian war in Chechnya.

One of the most populous regions in the mainly Muslim north Caucasus Chechnya declared independency after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 but was attacked by Russian forces in two wars since the mid-1990s.

On the eastern edge of the North Caucasus, RIA said, another five suspected fighters were killed in a another siege in a rural district of neighbouring Dagestan.

Amnesty International also said in its 2009 report on Caucasus that what Kremlin says the counter-terrorism operation that the Russian authorities declared there gave a green light to human right violations by government forces especially in Chechnya.

Reuters

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