East Prigorodny conflict

East Prigorodny conflict
Part of the Post-Soviet conflicts

Prigorodny District in North Ossetia–Alania
DateOctober 30 – November 6, 1992 (1992-10-30 – 1992-11-06)
Location
Result Ethnic cleansing of ethnic Ingush from the Prigorodny District by Ossetian militias
Belligerents
North Ossetia
Russian Federation
Ingush militia
Commanders and leaders
Boris Yeltsin
Akhsarbek Galazov
N/A
Units involved

North Ossetian militia
and security forces
North Ossetian Republican Guard
South Ossetian militia
Don Cossacks
Terek Cossacks[1]
Russian Army

Local Ingush groups
Casualties and losses
192 dead[2]
379 wounded[2]
409 dead[3]
457 wounded[4]
30,000–60,000 Ingush refugees[5]
9,000 Ossetian refugees[3]

The East Prigorodny conflict, also referred to as the Ossetian–Ingush conflict,[a] was an inter-ethnic conflict within the Russian Federation, in the eastern part of the Prigorodny District in the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, which started in 1989 and developed, in 1992, into a brief ethnic war between local Ingush and Ossetian paramilitary forces.[3]

  1. ^ "The Localized Geopolitics of Displacement and Return in Eastern Prigorodnyy Rayon, North Ossetia" (PDF). colorado.edu. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  2. ^ a b Осетино‑ингушский конфликт: хроника событий (in Russian). Inca Group "War and Peace". November 8, 2008. Archived from the original on May 20, 2011. Retrieved June 4, 2010.
  3. ^ a b c Russia: The Ingush–Ossetian Conflict in the Prigorodnyi Region (Paperback) by Human Rights Watch Helsinki Human Rights Watch (April 1996) ISBN 1-56432-165-7
  4. ^ Prague Watchdog Report, published July 28, 2006
  5. ^ "The Secret History of Beslan". Archived from the original on 2017-04-22. Retrieved 2017-04-21.


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