These people have the right to defend themselves the way they want, and the way the army is always try go there is absurd, if they don't go there, there's no problems.
And even I know there's no big crimes more out, when years ago the government and the local police and the mafia were thrown out from city.
Problems will come there when the government tries to get in there back.

I have a question ... why your RT journalists won't go there and try to live there for a few months to see how this city works :)) Is it very HARD ? :)