Russia's southern republic of Ingushetia is verging on civil war, a human rights group says, accusing officials of state-sponsored terror.
The Moscow Helsinki Group says the federal authorities in the Caucasus republic are engaged in kidnappings, torture and extra-judicial killings.
The authorities say they are fighting a war against terrorism.
Attacks against security forces - often carried out by Islamist militants - have intensified in Ingushetia.
Violence in the predominantly Muslim republic started during the war in neighbouring Chechnya in the late 1990s, when armed separatists began attacking government targets.
Full story by BBC - Ingushetia abuses 'may spark war' - 23 September 2008
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