The North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Ossetian: Цӕгат Ирыстоны Автономон Советон Социалистон Республикӕ, romanized: Tsagât Ireštone Âvtonomon Šovêton Šotsiâlišton Rêšpublika; Russian: Северо-Осетинская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика, romanized: Severo-Osetinskaja Avtonomnaja Sovetskaja Socialističeskaja Respublika) was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union.

[1] In 1990 the North Ossetian ASSR declared itself independent as part of rising ethnic conflict with Ingushetia.

[3][4] During the summer and early autumn of 1992, there was a steady increase in the militancy of Ingush nationalists.

At the same time, there was a steady increase in incidents of organized harassment, kidnapping and rape against Ingush inhabitants of North Ossetia by their Ossetian neighbors, police, security forces, and militia.

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