The Ingush Independence Committee or Committee of Ingush Independence (, ) is an

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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

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. The movement participated in the

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, which was held in the

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in January 2023. In May 2023, the government of

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started charging known members of the organization with supporting the

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and justification of

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. 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

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and

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, the leader of the Crimean Tatar national movement. In February 2024 the Committee praised a resolution by

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calling for Ingush self-determination, and condemning the Stalinist deportations of the Ingush. 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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