Russian Federation: Displaced people still struggling to lead a normal life
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Up to 136,000 people remain displaced in
Russia more than fifteen years after the beginning of armed conflict in
the republics of the north Caucasus. Hundreds of thousands of people fled
their homes as a result of an inter-ethnic conflict in North Ossetia in
1992 and separatist and counter-terrorist conflicts in Chechnya in 1994
and 1999. While large-scale warfare has ended and the situation in Chechnya
has stabilised, the north Caucasus remains insecure throughout as hostilities
continue between government forces and rebels. In the absence of political
resolutions to the conflicts, human rights abuses including abductions
and enforced disappearances persist and the rule of law remains weak. (...)
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The Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), established by the Norwegian Refugee Council, is the leading non-governmental body monitoring conflict-induced internal displacement worldwide.