Meeting at GULAG Museum talks fates of deported Chechens and Ingushes

The State Museum of GULAG History hosted a commemoration event of 1944 deportation victims. Participants told that in Chechnya and Ingushetia February 23 is marked as mourning day; and deportees’ families still experience problems upon return.

According to Maryam Yandieva, the organizer of the event and the author of monographs on deportation of Chechens and Ingushes, during the last decade, more and more young people have taken part in commemoration events of the Vainakh people.

In her report "Activities of Ingush intellectuals inside and outside USSR for the return of people to the Caucasus", Ms Yandieva told about the work carried out by Chechen and Ingush exiles to inform the world community about USSR’s actions against these nations. She said that Europe and Turkey published magazines "Free Caucasus", "United Caucasus" and others.

Besides, according to her story, in 1951, the "International Committee for the proceedings against the genocide committed by Soviet regime" was established in Munich, in which Chechens and Ingushes were represented by A. Uralov (a pseudonym of Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov) and Sozerko Malsagov.

On February 23, residents of Chechnya and Ingushetia commemorate victims of deportation. Earlier, the Day of Memory and Grief was marked in Chechnya on February 23, but in 2011, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov ordered to shift it to May 10.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.