A memorial complex will be opened in South Ossetia in memory of the victims of the Ered tragedy. This was reported to the “Res” news agency by Minister of Culture of the Republic Zhanna Zasseeva.
As noted by the Minister, the authors of the monument are the honored artists of South Ossetia Sarmat Zasseev and Robert Khubaev.
“The work on the monument has already been completed. The location of the memorial complex will be agreed with the relatives of the victims of the tragedy. We want this monument to be a living reminder of what fascism can do,” Zasseeva said.
According to the Minister, according to preliminary data, the monument will be erected at the intersection of the Tskhinval-Dmenis road as well as the bypass road.
“In the center of the complex there are 12 victims of the Ered tragedy, buried in the ground. There will be a chapel behind this monument. The central figure of the memorial stretches out his hand to the bell. The alarm, dodoy, faedis will ring once a year – as a reminder,” she has noted.
The tragedy in the village of Ered, which became one of the darkest pages of the genocide of the Ossetian people, occurred on March 18, 1991. On that day, near the village of Ered, Georgian informals from a military vehicle belonging to the internal troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, put off 25 Ossetians. Women and children were brutally beaten, but released, and after the brutal beating, 12 guys were taken to the “headquarters” of the Georgian gangs for further torture. However, the headquarters refused to receive them.
After that, the captives began to be transported by truck through the Georgian villages, shouting: “Who wants Ossetian blood,” meaning “who wants to mock Ossetians,” but people were closing their doors.
Then, according to the eyewitnesses, the hostages were subjected to severe torture, during which the prisoners were tortured with electric current, their bones were broken, their arms and legs were torn off, and their eyes were gouged out. Then 12 Ossetians, the youngest of whom was 19 years old, were thrown into a ravine above the village of Ered near a quarry, doused with gasoline and set on fire, and then covered the living ones with earth.
