Archive - 2008

As a result of Georgian aggression in the capital of the Republic of South Ossetia Tskhinval was damaged 80 per cent of living fund. This was informed to IA «Res» at Tskhinval Mayor’s office. «During the assessment of South Ossetian capital were found 593 damaged private houses and grounds. As a result of bombardment 1380 flats became unfit for human habitation. 6223 persons were left without a roof over their heads. The task is to complete the bulk of rehabilitation works in the living sector before winter».

Compensation payments to the Republic of South Ossetia citizens who lost its property in the result of Georgian aggression will be paid at RSO territory. This was informed to IA «Res» at RF MES in RSO operative group press service. Here noted that the financial aid consisting of 50 thousand rubles per family and the one-time assistance at the rate of 1 thousand rubles will be paid to every person of South Ossetia who has Russian citizenship.

Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations goes on rehabilitating of objects damaged during the Georgian aggression against the Republic of South Ossetia and providing the population with humanitarian aid. As IA «Res» correspondent was informed at Russian MES joint group in South Ossetia press service during the last day within the framework of RF MES have been delivered 221 tons of humanitarian loads including 137,5 tons of building materials.

Polish journalists detained in the vicinity of Ossetian village Artsevi by the law enforcement organs of the Republic of South Ossetia on September 8 will be passed to Polish ambassador at OSCE. As RSO Ombudsman David Sanakoev informed IA «Res» correspondent the journalists will be passed to Russian peacekeepers that will accompany them to Georgian village of Karaleti and pass them to Polish ambassador.

«Special building» of Russia has launched the rehabilitation of buildings at the territory of South Ossetia. More than 30 objects will be rehabilitated at the territory of the Republic including 15 schools (6 in the town and 9 around the republic). Besides that the buildings of Government, KGB, MIA, departments of three regions, State University, post office, bank, «Alan» hotel, fire brigade, library and special squad of militia will be rehabilitated.

RF Minister of regional development Dmitry Kozak has visited the Republic of South Ossetia. The RSO President has hosted Kozak in Tskhinval. After the meeting with the RSO President, RF Minister of regional development held a session in field hospital of Russian MEA. There were the representatives of federal ministries and departments and RSO Government representatives at the session.

The congress of today – the sixth one, according to modern numbering, and under an absolute count – the seventeenth congress of the Ossetian people, has gathered for the first time in Tskhinval. By a strange concurrence of circumstances – it gathered the day before the seventeenth anniversary of the Republic of South Ossetia. Let this teenager number deceive nobody. All the same we’re having an anniversary this year – ninety years have passed since the first national congress had been held. Ninety years long Ossetia’s civil institutions have been struggling with the lack of state unity. For ninety years people have been electing indivisible public representation, thus pointing at the irregularity and temporariness of all attempts of political division.

Gli orrori del conflitto, nella loro spoglia crudezza, vengono direttamente dal campo e da una osseta del sud, Svetlana Kozaeva, 45 anni, originaria di Tskhinvali, laureata in lettere all’Università di Mosca, poliglotta, grande appassionata dell’Italia. “Con mio fratello Ruslan, 43 anni, commerciante di prodotti alimentari, siamo arrivati in auto a Tskhinvali alle 17 circa dell’undici agosto. Avevamo già visto tre cadaveri abbandonati lungo la strada. Sapevamo che nell’attacco
erano morti mio cugino Dimitri, 40 anni, e mia zia Anna Zaseeva, di 73. Dall’alto ci si è parata davanti agli occhi una città fantasma, un mare di macerie e di palazzi distrutti.

Stop the genocide of the Ossetians!
The nationalistic and fascist government of Georgia from the year 1989 support the policy of the annihilation and the impression of the aboriginal Ossetian population from the territory that they occupy. From 1991 as a consequence of repeated military actions that were undertaken by the criminal authorities of Georgia against the small nations and the national purge murdered thousands of people –Ossetians, Abkhazians, Armenians, Russians. At the same time the scale of the genocide passed over the silence by mass media. The atrocity of the Georgian fascists, the tortures surpassed the one of the German fascists during the World War II.
The Georgian nation is sick, the ideas of the national oneness, justifying the territorial claims are warmed up by the Georgian mass media. The government of Georgia is financed by the USA, having it"s own geopolitical interests in the region. Now the tragedy is developed, the Ossetian people are systematically shot in own houses, perish under blockages of the destroyed houses. The Georgian fascists have destroyed, have wiped about Ossetian villages, the city of Tskhinval is in ruins. It"s impossible to count up the quantity of victims, that were buried under blockages of the houses destroyed by fire of the Georgian aggressors, the account goes on thousand. Groans of people from under blockages are audible. The Republic hospital where had helped to the wounded man was destroyed by the Georgian artillery, under blockages were wounded men and medical workers who could not be released under heavy fire of the opponent. Thus the Georgian party cynically declares the constitutional order prompting, one for another offers insinuations to accuse the Russian or Ossetian parts in the conflict. The people of Abkhazia will be the following victims of the Georgian extremism. We ask for the help, solidarity, and if it is possible with an exit on the international sites. Let the world knows the truth, instead of presented by the Georgian masters of falsifications lie.

IА “Рес”

At this moment the massed, intense, extremely cruel shelling of the housing estate of Tskhinval from the howitzers, mortars, artillery, IFV, tanks with using the system of the volley fire "Grad" from the direction of the Georgian villages continues. The bombardment goes on with the persistent volleys with the intervals under one second.

This information was supplemented with the chief of the information department of the South Ossetian part of the Control Committee Inal Pliev.
Here is the entire text.

There are the hits to the houses that are situated in the immediate region of the boundary. There is fire and smoke around of us. Continues the intimidation and the oppression of the peaceful population. I suppose that the number of the victims will increase badly. But I have no idea about the number of victims, because we are in the shelters.
Just now Saakashvily have declared by the radio that "gained a victory over the Russian Federation and Georgian troops are in the zone of the conflict and control Tskhinval totally and the Ossetian separatists will be obliterated".
He also made the number of victims of the Ossetian part public (1500 persons). "I don"t fight against the peaceful population, but with the gangsters". But in such a small nation can"t exist 1500 gangsters. It"s obviously that it is done to receive any political dividends. This war don"t directed at the political victory, it is directed at total destruction of the peaceful nation.
Now it is known that in the villages that have been occupied and that are released now the Georgians have taken away the Ossetian hostages. On the side of Georgia fight the international terrorists that had taken part in the war in Chechnya.
It"s especially discomposedly that the Georgian part hide the huge number of hostages from the Ossetian villages. This signify that they will be meanly killed as it was done earlier during the previous conflicts.
I think that it was wise of Russia to provide safety of civilian population, by talking with the Georgians their native war language. The Russian collaboration is not enouth, because the Georgians used heavy artillery against Tskhinval yesterday and today too.
It`s necessary to destroy that artillery, because our people are dying, owr town is practically broken to pieses, otherwise South Osetia will be totally destroyed.

Inal Pliev,
the chief of the information department
of the South Ossetian part of the Control Committee.