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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.

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Irina Gurdzhibekova

May 20, 1992

In accordance with Article 9 of the Agreement, it enters into force from the date of the exchange of instruments of ratification - from today

In Tskhinval on Wednesday, took place an exchange of letters of ratification of the Agreement between South Ossetia and Russia on the mutual recognition of documents confirming the fact of establishing disability of persons dismissed from the Ministries of Defense and Internal Affairs of the RSO and the Russian Federation.

Dozens of people came on Monday to the Alley of Heroes of the DPR to pay tribute to the memory of the legendary commander of the international brigade "Pyatnashka" Oleg Mamiev.

Several hundred people gathered on the alley of heroes in the Lenin Komsomol park , including the Chairman of the People's Council Vladimir Bidyovka and other parliamentarians, heads of ministries and departments, social activists, colleagues, and Mamiev's relatives.

President Anatoly Bibilov visited the Republican Multidisciplinary Medical Center (RMMC), on the territory of which an oxygen station has been launched, the press service of the head of state reports.

According to Фcting Minister of Health and Social Development Georgy Totchiev, a trial launch of the station was carried out, the equipment is operating in a regular mode

On May 20, South Ossetia will host a commemorative action “Light a candle in memory of the perished! Light it in your soul and never blow it out”, dedicated to the 29th anniversary of the Zar tragedy, the press service of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic reports.

“On this day, flowers and wreaths will be laid at the monument to the victims of the tragedy in the village of Zar, Tskhinval district. The names of the victims will be announced at the event, a mourning rally will be held,” the press service said.

After the self-dissolution of the COMECON and the Warsaw Pact, the destruction of the Soviet Union and the socialist commonwealth, the adsorption of the former socialist countries and republics of the former USSR, the ruling circles of the United States and Western Europe were dizzy with success.

They did not want to take into account that the victory in the Cold War came to them not thanks to a systemic victory over a geopolitical opponent, but only at the cost of the betrayal of the Soviet elite.