The Ingush Independence Committee or Committee of Ingush Independence ( inh, Ğalğay Kortamuq̇alen Komitet, russian: Комитет Ингушской Независимости, Komitet Ingushskoy Nezavisimosti) is an
Ingush Ingush may refer to:
* Ingush language
* Ingush people
The Ingush (, inh, ГIалгIай, translit=Ghalghaj, pronounced ) per Oxford dictionary "a member of a people living mainly in Ingushetia in the central Caucasus." Ingushetia is a federa ...
separatist
Separatism is the advocacy of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental or gender separation from the larger group. As with secession, separatism conventionally refers to full political separation. Groups simply seeking greate ...
organization founded on 7 January 2023 by
Ingush diaspora in Turkey.
History
The committee was founded on 7 January 2023 in Istanbul by Ingush nationalists living in Turkey. The creation of the movement was supported by
Oleksiy Goncharenko, a member of the
Verkhovna Rada.
The movement participated in the
Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum, which was held in the
European parliament in January 2023.
In May 2023, the government of
Ingushetia
Ingushetia (; russian: Ингуше́тия; inh, ГӀалгӏайче, Ghalghayče), officially the Republic of Ingushetia,; inh, Гӏалгӏай Мохк, Ghalghay Moxk is a republic of Russia located in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe. ...
started charging known members of the organization with supporting the
Caucasus Emirate
The Caucasus Emirate ( ce, Имарат Кавказ, Imarat Kavkaz, IK; russian: Кавказский эмират, Kavkazskiy emirat), also known as the Caucasian Emirate, Emirate of Caucasus, or Islamic Emirate of the Caucasus, was a Jihadist ...
and justification of
Nazism.
The armed wing of the movement, the
Ingush Liberation Army, was created in April 2023.
In September 2023, the head of the Ingush Independence Committee,
Ansar Garkho, held his first official meeting in the Crimean Tatar Mejlis with the head of the
Mejlis
( ar, المجلس, pl. ') is an Arabic term meaning "sitting room", used to describe various types of special gatherings among common interest groups of administrative, social or religious nature in countries with linguistic or cultural conne ...
Refat Chubarov and
Mustafa Dzhemilev, the leader of the Crimean Tatar national movement.
On May 3, 2024, the Ministry of Justice of Russia added the Ingush Independence Committee to the list of
undesirable organizations.
Goals
The committee does not claim to be a political party and does not have a specific ideology, it seeks to unite all Ingush people who support an independent state.
The organization is against
2018 border changes and seeks to return the lost territories.
The committee is against unification with other countries and refused an offer from the
Chechen government in exile which would unify the two states, if they become independent, into a
North Caucasian Confederation.
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See also
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National liberation struggle of the Ingush people
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Magomed Torijev
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Recognition of the genocide of the Ingush people
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