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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