A memorial meeting dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Tsinagar tragedy was held in South Ossetia.
On April 28, 1991, seven unarmed residents of the village. Tsinagar of Leningor region - Otar Margiev, Givi Bibilov, Slavik Chertkoev, Zaur Khubulov, Otar Khubulov, Tengiz Dudaev and Taimuraz Khubulov, defending their pastures from cattle theft, were killed by the Georgian aggressors. Among them was another resident of the village - Vasily Gigolaev, who miraculously escaped after multiple wounds.
The mourning event was attended by representatives of the Republic's leadership, headed by President Anatoly Bibilov, the public of the Republic, the press service of the head of state reports.
Laying flowers at the monument to the fallen defenders of the Fatherland, President Anatoly Bibilov addressed those present.
He called on fellow citizens to remember and honor the heroes who gave their lives for the freedom of the Motherland.
“Every year on April 28 we come here to pay tribute to the victims of the Tsinagar tragedy. Their bright names will never be forgotten.
I have repeatedly said, and I will repeat it now, that all the tragic events that befell South Ossetia at the hands of our southern neighbors are echoes of the 1920 Ossetian genocide. Yes, this was the beginning of the destruction of the Ossetian people. But the Ossetians are unconquerable people, unbroken people, and today we will do everything possible so that such tragedies do not happen again and that our children grow up under a peaceful sky,” he said.
The President expressed bewilderment at the statements of the Georgian side about the intention to return South Ossetia under its control.
“We have our own history; Georgia has its own one. Of course, we do not choose our neighbors and are ready to build friendly relations with Georgia and live in good neighborliness. But for this it is necessary to sit down at the negotiating table on an equal basis,” Anatoly Bibilov said.
He once again stressed that, despite the repeated change of leadership in Georgia, not a single Georgian politician has expressed humanity, had no courage to recognize the genocide of the Ossetian people.
“Until Georgia understands that South Ossetia is an isolated territory with its own history, culture and political structure, which has been developing and cooperating with friendly countries and has nothing to do with Georgia, there can be no talk of any good neighborliness.
I would also like to remind you that the goal of Operation Clear Field in August 2008 was to wipe out the South Ossetian people from the face of the earth. But in our difficulties, the Russian Federation has always provided its reliable shoulder. It was Russia that became a stumbling block on the path to the destruction of our people,” the President said.
