09.05.2009 20:37 | The war in August, 2008. The survivors tell as it was.

Siukaeva Maguli Omarovna, born in 1970, the resident of settlement Znaur, Znaurski area of RSO.

On August, 7, when Georgians began to shoot, we took cover in a basement with the children. We spent there all night and in the morning of August, 8 we ran to the local hospital. On the way we came under fire. The hospital was under heavy bombardment.It was too dangerous to be there and we decided to flee.

We drove along Zar`s road. This highway was under heavy shelling and our bus turned over. Many people were wounded in result of it – somebody broke his arm, somebody broke his leg. The driver broke the windshield and we climbed out through the window. Thechildrenwerecoveredwithblood.

One boy got his arm broken, and the girl cut her hip. The women and children stayed in the middle of the road. All the others have gone ahead. Russian soldiers drove by, we had 2-month-old daughter and I cried to them: “Help us!” They said us not to be afraid.

I left my children and got into the bus because 2-month-old baby was there. Little by little people went ahead and seven children and ten women stayed there. Then Russian soldiers set up our bus and by this broken bus we somehow reached Dzhava.

My husband stayed in Tskhinval. I did not even know if I’ll see him again. On August, 29 I returned with the children in Tskhinval, my brother took me there. My house is destroyed in part. God be thanked, none of my immediate relatives suffered. Now, when I recollect these events, I understand that we were saved by a miracle.

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Translated by Tatiana Inozemtseva