Nalchik/Agency Caucasus – Seven members of the Council of Elders of the Balkar People, a non-governmental organization that emerged in Kabardino-Balkaria to bring the public demands to the top of the agenda, left the Council because they thought that it deviated from its aim.
Among the seven members of the Council are Deputy President Ismail Kaytayev, member of the executive board Jambulat Etteyeva, Zeytun Zokayev and Dalhat Tamurzayev. The seven members of the Council ran the argument that although the Council of Elders of the Balkar People was founded both to get revoked the Act of Local Administration because it lost the villagers their graveyards and to restore to Hasaniya and Belarechka their status of township after they were made part of Nalchik, the Council now tries to provoke discrimination and to mount tension between different groups of people who live in the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria.
While those seven members argued that the Council traced, apart from the boundaries as well as the maps back to one hundred years ago, the money that the federal government allocated for but failed to distribute it to the Balkar people who were exiled in 1944, Oyus Gurtuyev, leader of the Council, accused them of pursuing their selfish interests.
The Council of Elders of the Balkar People was founded in 2006 under the presidency of Ismail Sabanchi. On November 10, 2007, the Kabarda-Balkar Prosecutor brought a file to the Supreme Court against the Council, calling for it to be closed down because it posed a threat to the interests of the government. The Supreme Court has not issued a response yet. KU/ÖZ/FT
