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
Prigorodny District, North Ossetia–Alania, borderland with Ingushetia
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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