23.03.2009 14:44 | Besaeva Nato Tsutsaevna, 72 years old, resident of village Satikar

Besaeva Nato Tsutsaevna, 72 years old, resident of village Satikar:

When Georgians entered the village, we thought they were from the next village Ksuis. They were making a lot of noise. Where could we learn they were those monkeys?! Having entered the village they began to shoot heavily. They were shelling from submachine guns, mortars, from all best weapons. I had been in a basement. Being downcast I sat down. And suddenly one of them jumped inside. The others were behind the house. There was one of my friends among them – I worked in the club of Ksuis village for a long time. The first one put the submachine gun to my forehead, and my friend asked him not to kill me. It said in Russian: “You shouldn’t kill, don`t kill her!” They left my house. Then I ran to my neigbour and said: “Marusya, for God's sake, let’s run!

We rushed to the wood. They began to shoot at our back. We walked in the forest… On hands and knees… We learned that they killed two men from village Dmenis, when rescuing their life they ran to the wood too.

At night we came to village Naniauri. We got into one house. There was an old woman there with us. They came into the house where we had been and put a pistol to her forehead. She said: “Kill me; I am already dead all the same”.

They drove us in a distant corner. Then we have hidden. Then Georgians went away. And we came back home.

19.03.2009 19:57 | Murat Dzhioev: “By Georgian Tradition Tension Arises on Holidays”

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia Republic already more then once paid attention to the forcing of the situation by the Georgian law enforcement in the areas bordering on RSO”, - The Minister of Foreign Affairs of RSO Murat ​Dzhioev said to the IA “Res” correspondent when commenting on the information about the Georgian imminent armed provocation against South Ossetia and the Russian military men dislocated in republic.

“In the Georgian areas which border upon RSO there are illegal presence and increase in manpower of the Georgian armies, special troops and redeployment of heavy defense technology. The provocations against the people of South Ossetia do not stop. And all these events are taking place in the responsibility zone of the European Union observers”, - the minister has emphasized. He noted what “by Georgian tradition tension usually arises on holidays, as we can see it now.”

 “Therefore we call to the international organizations which took upon their shoulder the responsibility for safety for the activization of their efforts in Georgian territory which border upon South Ossetia, so that not to allow Georgian authorities to realize their aggressive intentions again”, - Murat Dzhioev said.

The chapter of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also draws attention to the fact that “Georgian authorities, politicizing a problem, do not let the people of South Ossetia to receive the gas, incoming through their territory from Russia”. “And all these things are going on in conditions of severe winter and against the background of awful destructions, which South Ossetia underwent during the Georgian military aggression”, - the Minister has emphasized.

19.03.2009 19:56 | The message of the Ministry of the Press and mass communications of RSO

According to law enforcement of SouthOssetiaRepublic, Georgia prepares for the wide-ranging armed provocation against South Ossetia and military personnel of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, dislocated in the republic. The provocation is planned by the western counsellors, the representatives of the Georgian special services and proposes to active participation of Dmitry Sanakoev and his henchmen and also subversive groups of special mission units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Defense of Georgia. It’s not excluded that the entering of the mentioned groups on the territory of republic will occur in different directions and in the different ways, including in kind of a civilian population.

Now the law enforcement of RSO is ready to take rigorous measures in order to prevent the provocation.

All responsibility for the possible consequences completely, entirely rests with a political management of Georgia.

Translated by Tatiana Inozentseva

19.03.2009 19:53 | Luc Devos:“After the Disintegration of the Soviet Union Georgians Became Extremely Nationalistic”

One of these days mister Luc Devos, the Belgian expert, visited SouthOssetiaRepublic. Luc Devos met in Tskhinval with the RSO Government vice – chairman, the Minister of Youth, Sport and Tourism Affairs of RSO Eleonora Bedoeva and the representatives of the youth organizations of South Ossetia.

During the meeting Eleonora Bedoeva acquainted mister Devos with a situation in South Ossetia.

Mister Devos met with the young people, which directly took part in military actions in the days of the Georgian aggression on August, 2008, protecting the Native land. “The heritage of eighteen years war, and a life in condition of unceasing diversions in the form of the acts of terror, in the form of information diversions, which could be more terrible than death for our Caucasian consciousness, left its mark on our consciousness.

All of us are the carriers of a posttraumatic syndrome; all of us need in rehabilitation and support. And Georgia should be responsible for it too. And not only Georgia should be, but also those people, who indifferently looked at the destruction of our people and at our youth, being in such condition” – Bedoeva said. During a meeting mister Devos gave his view on the events of August, 2008.

“It is very difficult to give you any good advice because it is difficult to understand what has happened, as if it is not the unique conflict region. It is very difficult to understand what is happening today in Congo. I know that according Stalin's decree in 1924 SouthOssetiaRepublic became a part of Georgia. And not on his demand only”, - mister Devos said. Mister Devos also noted the dismal consequences of Georgian nationalism display.

19.03.2009 19:49 | Edward Kokoiti: “The deputies, first of all, should be the bearers of the will of people”

The president of South Ossetia Republic Edward Kokoiti met today with the representatives of political parties of RSO, Tarzan Gagloev, the member of political council of a party “Edinstvo” (“Unity”); Stanislav Kochiev, a chairman of Communist Party of RSO; Roland Kelehsaev, the representative of Public party of RSO and a member of political council of a party “Fidibasta” Stanislav Gobozov were among them.

During a meeting Edward Kokoiti informed the representatives of political parties of RSO that President of RSO will sign soon the Decree about the date of parliamentary elections in SouthOssetiaRepublic.

“I would also like to hear your wishes, if you have them, and your opinion before the beginning of this uneasy pre-election campaign. These elections are going to be the first which will be held in the recognized SouthOssetiaRepublic. I would like our political parties and political forces to use as much as possible correct forms of struggle. The people will go not behind those who speak more, but behind those, who has already really proved itself as a strong politician, who is able to defend its interests. We should maintain equal conditions for all the applicants”- the President has emphasized.

“You are the image of our society, and many things depend on how the elections will be held. The criticism should be, but it should be objective and on business. We should show by these elections that there is high political culture in South Ossetia, and we should prove, that we became the state not casually. It is a merit of our people”, - Edward Kokoiti continued.

19.03.2009 19:47 | The abducted citizens of South Ossetia are found in Georgian prison

”The Missing citizens of South Ossetia are in the Georgian prison now”, - theRepresentativeunderhumanrights by the President of RSO DavidSanakoev informed IA “Res”. As  Sanakoev said, there are the fresh news about the citizens of RSO Alan Hachirov (born in 1992), Alan Hugaev (born in 1989) and Soltan Pliev (born in 1983), which went missing on October, 13 in Meret village of Tskhinvalsky district of RSO. They were found in one of the Georgian prisons by the representatives of the Office of the National defence.

“Alan Hachirov, Alan Hugaev and Soltan Pliev were really abducted by law-enforcement authorities of Georgia, - David Sanakoev has commented.

Earlier the Georgian party repeatedly denied the fact of their whereabouts in law-enforcement authorities of Georgia. Giga Bokeriya, the head of Georgian delegation officially announced about it on Geneva discussions to Boris Chochiev, RSO President's Plenipotentiary for Post-conflictSettlement

Directly during the negotiations with the Georgian party about the exchange of detained and captured Givi Targamadze, thechairmanof the defense and security committee of the parliament of Georgia and Shalva Tramakidze, the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia denied that. Now we shall try to learn the circumstances of their detention and where they were all this time. Fortunately, they turned out to be alive, and we shall take part in their further destiny”, - Sanakoev said.

19.03.2009 10:07 | They died a dreadful death

Among thousands victims of the next genocide, organized by Georgia, many people found their death on the way from Tskhinval to Dzau, when they tried to get out of the besieged city and the villages occupied by the Georgian invaders to more safe place. There were husband and wife Miroslav Valiev (46 years old) and Jeanne Khasieva (44 years old) and their relative Liane Dudaeva (38 years old), the wife of Miroslav`s brother, among them. They died dreadful death. Fatima Mamieva, the spouse of Jeanne’s brother, the witness to this terrible accident, tells:

On August, 7 and 8, when Tskhinval was under the massive artillery bombardment from Georgia, we together with my husband and my mother, whom I took home from village Hetagurovo in the afternoon of August, 7, took cover in the basement. Jeanne and Liane, which live in the neighborhood, on Ostrovsky Street, were hiding in the cellars too. Lubomir, the husband of Liane at that time was carrying out his service on the post in village Grom, and Mir (Miroslav) was in Vladikavkaz where he brought the children on the eve.

In the afternoon of August 9, Mir returned in Tskhinval for his wife, Jeanne`s parents and Liane. He came to us. He was excited by that he saw in the city and hurried us. He said that it was necessary to pack our things and go with him to Vladikavkaz. My husband Albert did not want to go, but Mir insisted, he said that we had to leave immediately or it would be too late.

At that time our district was taken over by panic, the people learned that the Georgian tanks again have entered the city. We learned that Georgian soldiers threw grenades in the basements and kill civilian population. People were fleeing wherever they could. We got into our car and together with Miroslav drove to his house. The parents of Jeanne and Albert got into our car, and Mir`s wife and Liane were in Mir`s car. We left the city into two cars. When we drove through the city, I was shaking with fear. Explosions were occurring everywhere, buildings were on fire and everything around us was collapsing. As soon as we left the city, we thought that the worst was over and we were saved.

19.03.2009 10:00 | He died near his house

The 72-year-old Tskhinval resident Hadzhumar Margiev died near his house situated in Pobeda St., as a result of bombardment of the city.

As Hadzhumar`s neighbors Botaz Tsaritov and Roman Bikoev, the eyewitnesses of his tragical death say, Hadzhumar together with his wife Zemphira, as well as all his neighbors, took cover in the basement of his house during heavy shelling of the city.

He took care of his paralyzed spouse, which could not move. They were alone in the house: their sons and the daughter lived in Russia.

“In the evening of August, 8 the fire became calmer a little bit. By this time our civil guardsmen managed to oust the enemy forces from the city. We came out on the street to take a breath of air for a minute together with Hadzhumar and our neighbor Vyacheslav Bitiev, we were standing near Hadzhumar`s house, - say Botaz and Roman. - It was already dark. Someonecameoutwithalantern, someonestartedsmoking.

Probably, Georgians who located on the heights of Tskhinval, watched the streets of city from the devices of night vision and noticed us. Then a powerful explosion occurred near our place: the shell hit the next house and destroyed it almost completely. A shock wave threw us aside. The shrapnel hit Hadzhumar`s belly cavity, cut up all inside. He was taken to the hospital, but they didn’t manage to save his life. On the second day, on August, 9, Hadzhumar died.

16.03.2009 19:44 | Muldarova Marina Georgievna, 42 years old

Muldarova Marina Georgievna, 42 years old, Tskhinval resident:

In the childhood, when I read the books about Great Patriotic war, about the brutality of fascists, I was glad to live in a peacetime. I couldn`t imagine even in the nightmare that I`ll be an eyewitness of three wars: 1989-1991, 2004 and 2008.

But the military aggression of 2008 year has eclipsed all the others in its cruelty. That night – from the 7^th to the 8^th of August - became a sorrowful date of a history of Ossetian people, when the disloyal, inherently monstrous military aggression against Ossetian people, peacefully sleeping Tskhinval occurred.

That night Saakashvili announced for “The News” that Georgia was not going to attack South Ossetia, he also declared about the truce. Everybody went to bed early so that to have a rest after the last sleepless nights.

At about 12 a.m. we woke up from the deafening explosions. We together with my mother ran to the neighbours because we had no a basement. We spent three days and nights in this basement. The inhabitants of the nearby streets - October St. and Pushkin St.

13.03.2009 15:50 | The Victims of Georgian Aggression: Azamat Gagloev

Azamat Gagloev was differed from other pupils of a youth camp. Always smiling, reserved boy didn’t try to be in the limelight. But all the same, he attracted attention, not because the other 40 pupils of the camp were worse, simply he was better.

As in the Ministry of Youth affairs of South Ossetia say, they are working with the new generation and used to have a psychological portrait of each of the pupils, no matter the number of them. Azamat's portrait was marvelously similar at all the leaders and employees of a scout camp; it was extremely positive, unusually light and native, close to everybody.

Everybody in the camp: children and organizers - lived as a one close-knit family and as if the camp was in mountains, it was necessary to prepare constantly fire wood, to carry water, to help cooks in the kitchen. The pupils tried to help, as they could, they organized the watches, the guys were responsible for fire wood and water, and the girls helped in the kitchen, tidied up in tents and took care of the cleanliness in the territory of the camp. In a word, in was necessary to live, to work and to have a rest together in the camp. But as it used to be in any human society, one acted their responsibilities more honesty, others -less.

Azamat, no matter he was on duty or not, always was ready to help the leaders and to bring water, to pin fire wood or to kindle a fire, he always silently and easy was engaged in any useful business.

Being modest, laconic he was very charming. The secret of this charm, probably, was simply in that he loved people, the life and had very good upbringing.

In one evenings Azamat began to read the fragments from a poem “Evgenie Onegin” for the people, gathered near a fire, everybody was inexpressibly surprised. Later many of the children followed Azamat and the ordinary evening has turned into creative one. It was in 2006 on the coast of the river Chimas, where Azamat had a rest, being still the schoolboy.