Archive - 20/5/2021

The first international cultural and educational conference with the participation of representatives of Transnistria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia was held on May 13 under the patronage of the State Service for Culture and Historical Heritage of the PMR.

According to the official representation of South Ossetia in Transnistria, the main goal of the conference, which was held online, was to establish creative cooperation between the educational institutions of an artistic orientation.

The cars with the bodies of the dead left behind a dense scarlet line of blood. This is how the Zar tragedy was remembered by the eyewitness Gennady Khubaev. On that black May day, the last car following the convoy managed to get away from the fascists, and they informed people in the city about the atrocious crime. Gennady also learned about the incident.

As the eyewitness told the correspondent of the IA "Res", he and his friends had immediately ran towards the hospital.

On Thursday thousands of people laid flowers and wreaths at the monument to the victims of the tragedy in the village of Zar in Tskhinval district of South Ossetia.

Exactly 29 years ago, on the Zar road, Georgian gangs shot 33 civilians, including women, old people and children.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia issued on Thursday a press release in connection with the 29th anniversary of the Zar tragedy, in which it has recalled the heinous crime against the Ossetian people that happened 29 years ago, on May 20, 1992.

In the recent history of South Ossetia, there are many sorrowful dates over which time has no power and which people will always remember. One of these is May 20. Exactly 29 years ago, on May 20, 1992, a convoy of cars and trucks was moving along the Zar road.

The exhausted civilians, women, children and old people left the besieged Tskhinval hoping to wait out the war in a safe place, but along the road, which was called the Road of Life, they were brutally shot by the Georgian fascists.

..Sunny Georgia - isn't it

We used to call you ...

Why did you drink the sun to the last drop?

From a child, killing a mother?

Irina Gurdzhibekova

May 20, 1992