Hmm, seems to have been a two-way thug-fest between Ingush and Ossetian nationalists with federal troops brought in to keep them from killing each other.
Ossetia-Ingushetia by Alan Ch. Kasaev* Introduction The conflict between Ossetia and Ingushetia that exploded on October 30-November 6, 1992 was the first large-scale ethnic war on the territory of the newly-reconstituted Russian Federation. The basic source of this conflict was the prolonged dispute between the local populations and authorities of North Ossetia and Ingushetia concerning the administrative status of the Prigorodny region. The immediate precipitant was the unwise application of the Russian "state of emergency" statute in the Prigorodny region of North Ossetia (now the Alanlya Republic of North Ossetia). After the bloodshed subsided and the conflict dissipated, the Russian government faced problems that it had never dealt with, or even thought about, before. These included: defining the legal status and organizing the return of refugees and displaced peoples;
restoring residential areas and vital infrastructures that its forces had destroyed; and
re-establishing political and socio-psychological bonds between and among the diverse peoples of the Russian Federation and between the federal government and subjects of the federation.
http://www.rand.org/publications/CF/CF129/CF-129.chapter1.html
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