The killing of a Circassian pre-teen, 11-year-old Judy Mohammed Hair Maf, in Damascus on September 26 (Facebook.com, September 26), revitalized efforts of Circassians in the North Caucasus to repatriate their ethnic brethren from Syria. Circassian activist Khazrial Khanakhok held a protest in Maikop, Adygea, to attract public attention to the plight of the Circassians stranded in the endless Syrian conflict. Khanakhok said that he told passers-by that the girl “died of a sniper shot and the loss should not have taken place. The [Russian] authorities only had to allow those Syrian compatriots who wanted to return to do so” (Natpressru.info, …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation