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"It was scary to move"
The Yidiev family left the Satsit camp one of the latter, but is not going to return to his homeland. “We have been preparing for a long time, but did not manage to find suitable housing in Ingushetia,” 52 -year -old Markh Idieva told the newspaper. - And we don’t want to return to Chechnya - it’s scary there. ” According to Yidieva, with great difficulty she managed to knock out a room in the manual transmission (a place of compact residence) in Sleptsovsk, a village located a few kilometers from the 'Sacita'. In Soviet times, there were car deposits and storage rooms, where fertilizers and pesticides were stored. The last ten years they have not been exploited. In August 2003, refugees were inhabited here, but after a week they had to urgently evacuate them - many had dizziness, nausea, and skin rashes. Now the territory of the manual transmission is considered disinfected. “They came to us from the Ministry of Emergencies, they said that they cleaned the Earth and now you can live here,” says 32 -year -old daughter Markha Bell. “But moving was still scary.” I have a one -year -old child, I'm most afraid for him. But now we have been living for two days and so far we seem to feel normally. We are settled. "
“With the liquidation of the last tent camp, the problem of refugees has not been solved at all, as it might seem,” said the employee of the human rights center 'Memorial' to the Usam Baysaev. - According to various sources, at present, in various places of compact residence there are about 20 thousand forced immigrants, as long in the private sector. The problem will be solved only when people themselves want to return to Chechnya, and not by anyone's will or decree. '
The history of tent camps on the territory of Ingushetia has more than four years. In the fall of 1999, entire columns of refugees rushed to Ingushetia - active artillery shots of the Terrible, as well as the Nozhai -Yurt and Vedensk regions began. “Hundreds of people then lost housing, relatives,” recalls Zargan Makhadzhiev, the head of the public organization 'Justice'. - They went here for help, in addition, many relatives lived here. ” Refugees helped with what they could, but in the tiny republic there was not enough space to place everyone: only according to official figures, by the beginning of 2000 the number of refugees exceeded 70 thousand. It was then that ten tent camps appeared near the large cities of Ingushetia, in which “temporarily displaced faces” settled in whole families.
“But the camps were in the eye for local authorities in the eye,” said Ruslan Badalov, head of the public movement, the head of the public movement “Chechen Committee of National Salvation”. - Therefore, people began to create conditions under which they could no longer survive in the camp. Of course, this was not power pressure, rather moral and psychological. Refugees were confronted with a choice: return to Chechnya - get compensation for lost housing, you will stay - you can forget about compensation. ” However, people were afraid to return to their homeland, not believing in stories about a new stable life. Then the camps began to close.
For six months in the territory of Ingushetia, five tent camps were liquidated, and the rest, by decision of the Government of Chechnya, were to be closed by March 1 of this year. “After this day, not a single tent should remain on the territory of Ingushetia,” said the press secretary of the State Council of Chechnya Said Dibiev. But more than three months passed before the Chechen refugees left temporary housing in the territory of the last of the tent towns - 'Sacita'.
'If we do not release the camp, then the tents are pulled out by the BTR'
At the end of May, the leadership of the Migration Service of Ingushetia disseminated information on the liquidation of the camp. On June 1, on the day of the official closure of the camp, employees of the Migration Service of Ingushetia, accompanied by police officers, arrived at Sacita. There were still about 150 tents in the camp. Adam Dadaev told the newspaper that officials promised to use force if the tents were not released within five days. “First, Ahmed Parchiev, the deputy head of the migration service, told us that on June 3, we will be disconnected by light, gas and water. And if we do not free the camp until the 5th, then the tents are pulled out by BTR, ”says Adam. Refugees preferred not to contact the authorities. As a sign of gratitude to the returning, the KAMAZ was provided for the transportation of property. When leaving, refugees took with them not only tents, but even wooden flooring - in a new place could not do without it.
By the time of the arrival of refugees in Grozny, a small town of shield houses - the PVR (temporary accommodation point) was already prepared for them. The most ordinary conditions: small rooms, amenities on the street. Everything here is not much different from tents in Ingushetia. But the returning refugees are satisfied - after all, at home. Heed Labazanova also allocated a house. In it, she will live with her husband and eight children, two of whom were born in a tent in Ingushetia. Heda does not pay attention to small arrears in the dwelling, the main thing, in her opinion, has a roof over her head. “If I knew that there were such conditions here, I would have returned a long time ago,” she admits. - Just the conversations were different. And the situation in the republic left much to be desired. So they lived as they lived. ”
In contrast, Petim Larsanova lived in Pvra in Grozny for several months. “Personally, I was also happy for the first time: in appearance the rooms looked quite tolerable,” says Petima. - But problems here arise at every step. Since we came here, I have never seen clean water, gas is supplied only periodically, and electricity is generally luxury - they turn off all the time, although the light is on in neighboring houses. They save on us, or what? " Hava's neighbor adds: “Tell me about products. What color bread! " Products included in the daily ration for 15 rubles, issued daily returning to immigrants, are really low -quality. The Chechen government committee on forced immigrants claim that they have nothing to do with it. “All products that are issued to refugees undergo an examination of the epidemiological service, after which they make a conclusion,” Lema Bichuev, deputy chief of the Migration Office of the Chechen Republic, assured the newspaper Lema Bichuev. “In general, we do not buy products ourselves, but bring from a centralized base from Kabarda.”
But people do not become easier for people, and they can only dream: about studying, about work that is almost impossible to find, about compensation, which will help return to new rebuilt houses. “Until your home, you still feel like a refugee,” says Petim Larsanova.
06/08/2004 / Louise Andieva, Grozny