MINELRES: Fwd: Meskhetians in Krasnodar Kray deprived of their passports
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Subject: RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 6, No. 98, Part I, 28 May 2002
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 6, No. 98, Part I, 28 May 2002
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PRESSURE ON IMMIGRANTS IN KUBAN LINKED WITH PENDING SALE OF
AGRICULTURAL LAND... Law enforcement officials in Krasnodar Krai
conducted special operations in the Anapskii raion last week as the
result of which some 38 Meskhetian Turks were detained and deprived of
their passports, RFE/RL's Moscow bureau reported on 27 May. Sarvar
Tidorov, head of the Meskhetian Turk community in the krai said that
the Meskhetians were harvesting a field at the time and were told by
police to leave the region. According to the bureau, several analysts
believe that it is not accidental that the punitive measures taken
against the Meskhetians have coincided with the State Duma's
consideration of legislation that would regulate the buying and
selling of agricultural land (see "RFE/RL Russian Political Weekly,"
22 May 2002). They believe that the Meskhetians would be a serious
obstacle to a quick seizure of agricultural lands, since the
Meskhetian community survives mainly through agricultural work. JAC
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