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23.03.2009 17:55 | Vladimir Margiev, 62 years old, the fireman of the Russian peace-making battalion
 Vladimir Margiev, 62 years old, the fireman of the Russian peace-making battalion "Jugniy” disposition:
- I was on duty at night of August, 7. At the first volleys of the Georgian artillery, which choose as the target not uptown only, but also the position of a peace-making battalion, I had to take cover in the stokehole fire chamber, luckily it wasn`t nessesary to heat in summertime. I spent there three day, hungry and without water and I became the witness of savage reprisal over Russians. After the Georgian armed forces were put to flight, I could return home. I turned black from a coal dust.
There are thousands histories connected with a genocide and ethnic purges in South Ossetia. For two days Georgia committed so many crimes, which were beyond the human comprehension, that its authority deserved to be in the prisoner's box of the international court for crimes against humanity. But a principle of "one's own bastard" works again when the behavioral model towards a concrete situation is coming into being.
Everybody knows who the real initiator of fighting was, who the aggressor was and who was under attack. But all the same it’s most likely that having a wish to save such a good full-fledged anti-Russian buffer on South Caucasus the West will continue “the restoration of defensibility of Georgia".
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23.03.2009 17:48 | Edward Kulumbegov, the captain of a peace-making battalion, the military observer
 Edward Kulumbegov, the captain of a peace-making battalion, the military observer:
- At night on 07.08.08 I was at my post in village Megvrekisi which is situated in Georgian territory in seven kilometers to the south of Tskhinval. About 23.30 a.m. the Georgian military observers deserted their post having left there only Russians and the only Ossetian – it was me. However, the satellites of the Georgiantelevision companies situated not far away from there. In ten minutes sleeping Tskhinval was under artillery attack and the journalists, which were translating live commentary, accompanied the volleys with loud approving exclamations and shouts "hurrah".
At daybreak the quantity of the journalists has trebled and the reaction of the others was the same. It’s a miracle that the soldiers of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia did not deal shortly with the peacemakers. Probably, the aggressor decided that all the same there's nothing they could do and they could be useful as hostages.
E. Kulumbegov also said that he felt a lump rise in his throat at the sight of the monsters triumphing over the view and sound of the shells, which were bringing death to his native city. It would be found out later, that the father of a military observer E. Kulumbegov died in the city. Edward became the witness of the panic flight of the mockery of warriors, when the Russian peacemakers were rescued from mortal danger by their colleagues.
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23.03.2009 17:44 | 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.
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19.03.2009 13:07 | 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.
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19.03.2009 13:00 | 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.
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