Ingush

An Ingush (left) and a "Truchmenian tartare" in traditional costume (by Christian Gottfried Heinrich Geißler , 1803)

Schematic representation of the main settlement area of the Ingush in the Caucasus

The Ingush are a people in the Russian North Caucasus and the titular nation of the Autonomous Republic of Ingushetia as well as a minority in the neighboring republics of Chechnya and North Ossetia .

The 2010 Russian census found 444,833 Ingush nationwide, including 385,537 in the Republic of Ingushetia, where they make up 94.1% of the population.

Culture and language

The Ingush are closely related to the neighboring Chechens in language and culture . Their language is Ingush , the vast majority of them belong to Sunni Islam and have a Sufi orientation. 85 percent of the Ingush belong to the so-called Will of Kunta Haddschi Kischiev (died 1867), which is a sub-group of the Sufi order of the Qadiriyya .

history

1934-1944 Ingushetia formed an ASSR within the Soviet Union for the first time together with Chechnya . Towards the end of World War II , the Ingush met the same fate as numerous other smaller ethnic groups within the USSR, when a large part of the people (around 100,000 people), beginning on February 23, 1944, was deported to Central Asia by the Stalinist NKVD on the basis of a deportation order from the CPSU has been. 12,000 Ingush were killed. Alleged disloyalty during the war was cited as a pretext for the kidnapping. German troops had not even reached the Ingush territory. The persistent resistance of the people against forced collectivization and the NKVD is assumed to be the actual reason . On January 9, 1957, the survivors of the deportation were finally allowed to return. 1957–1991 / 92 Ingushetia again formed an ASSR with Chechnya. Since then, however, it has formed its own federation within Russia , since the Ingush, despite continued sympathy and solidarity, do not want to support the Chechens' declaration of independence.

Web links

"How did I come to the EU, I with my cane ... An Ingush goes to Strasbourg." SWR , November 15, 2007, radio feature by Gisela Erbslöh, downloadable RTF file, 86 kB
The human rights situation in the North Caucasus Republics. Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan. Memorandum of the Society for Threatened Peoples, 11/2009
The Ingush report of the radio station "Voice of Russia"

Individual evidence

↑ Excel table 5, line 74 .
↑ Results of the 2010 Census of Russia , Excel table 7, line 464.
↑ Cf. Vahit Akaev: Islam and politics in Chechniia and Ingushetiia. In: Galina Yemelianova (Ed.): Radical Islam in the Former Soviet Union (= Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series. 18). Routledge, London et al. 2011, ISBN 978-0-203-86298-8 , pp. 62–81, here p. 66.
↑ ^a ^b Cf. Gunnar Heinsohn : Lexicon of Genocides (= Rororo 22338 rororo current ). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-499-22338-4 .

[1] Excel table 5, line 74 .

[2] Results of the 2010 Census of Russia , Excel table 7, line 464.

[3] Cf. Vahit Akaev: Islam and politics in Chechniia and Ingushetiia. In: Galina Yemelianova (Ed.): Radical Islam in the Former Soviet Union (= Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series. 18). Routledge, London et al. 2011, ISBN 978-0-203-86298-8 , pp. 62–81, here p. 66.

[Heinsohn-4] Cf. Gunnar Heinsohn : Lexicon of Genocides (= Rororo 22338 rororo current ). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-499-22338-4 .