30.03.2009 22:54 | Georgian soldiers left them to die
 74-year-old Anisim Dzhagaev lived with his wife in a private house on Kulaeva Street.
During the heavy shelling of the city from the Georgian positions they were in the house. They don`t have a basement to be hidden, and they didn’t go to the neighbours, because Anisim`s wife Chyznal can hardly move, she is the invalid of the first group.
As their daughter Dzerassa told (she knows about the tragedy from the mother’s words), on August, 9 the next house, where two single women lived, lighted up in result of the shell hit. Anisim helped them to extinguish fire, but they didn’t manage to put out fire by their small forces. They only managed to take furnishing out of the house. In a few minutes after the house caught fire, the shell of “Zrad” rocket system hit the roof of Dzhagaev`s house and it began to burn too.
Anisim tried to stop the fire growing, tried to extinguish it at once. With a pailful of water he walked up the exterior stair to the attic. At that time the next shell hit the house and exploded with a roar. Anisim was on the stair and the splinter hit his leg, his leg war nearly torn off. Anisim managed to slip downwards. The wound was bleeding, he began to lose consciousness. His sick wife wasn’t in condition to give her husband necessary aid; with her infirm hands she couldn’t dress the wound in his leg to stop a bleeding. She screamed for help, but nobody answered.
By that time nobody of the neighbors left at this street, when Georgian soldiers came, everybody escaped. The neighbor was going to take them away by his car, but didn’t manage, his car was fired and he had to leave them, he was saved by a miracle by himself. The house of Kadzaevs was in fire, flame did not penetrate into the entrance only, where bleeding Anisim laid, gradually losing consciousness.
His wife, who received burn wounds, was sitting next to him. She could only hopelessly watch her dying husband’s sufferings. Georgian soldiers opened the gate of their house, saw the tortures of elderly and left them to die. At night from the 9th to the 10th of August bleeding Anisim died.
“On August, 10 after the Georgian invaders were dislodged from the city, they, at last, let me pass in area Shanghai, to my parents. I saw terrible picture: the house burned to the ground, my emaciated, wounded mother, and next to her - dead father with cut off leg in a pool of blood. Some nearby houses burned down too.
Mum was taken to Vladikavkaz. The father was temporarily buried in a kitchen garden under periodically renewed bombardments from village Nikozy. In two days we reburied him in village Tbet”, - Dzerassa says.
The health of received burn wounds Chyznal has become worse and the daughters took her to Moscow for treatment.
On photo: the house, where Dzhagaev`s family lived
Sergey Gazzayev, photos of Sergey Gazaev
Translated by Tatiana Inozemtseva
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