Meskhetians, Kurds and Armenians in line

6,500 Meskhetians are deported from Krasnodar Krai last year. This figure is double for year 2002. Kurds and Armenians are in line for deportation.

10.04.2002

The Russian newspaper Izvestiya on March 28, 2002, have informed about the migrants deported from Kuban. Last year it was 6,5 thousand. Meskhetian deported from Krasnodar Krai, in 2002 is double. Together with them will be deported Kurd-yezids and Armenians. On March 27, 2002 the legislative assembly of Krasnodar Krai have passed the law regulating local migration. According to the received documents local militia since April 1 of the current year will form filtration camps.

Press centre of The Union of Georgian Repatriates Tiflis office informs that till now only source of the incomes of the majority of Meskhetian families in Kuban was the crop from rented plot of land.

According to a source, the Krasnodar Governor Aleksandr Tkachev have ordered: not to give in rent plots of land to Meskhetians. All plots of land, that Meskhetians have in rent, should be taken away from them till the April, 20, 2002. The source informs, that this discrimination measure is distributed absolute to all Meskhetians, living in Krasnodar region, despite temporary or constant registration, even despite the Russian citizenship. Agency Caucasus

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