A mourning rally dedicated to the victims of the Eered tragedy will be held in South Ossetia. As Res was informed in the Ministry of Culture, the event will be held on March 18 at 12.00 at the city cemetery.
“The mourning event will be attended by the leadership of South Ossetia, relatives of the victims of the tragedy, and members of the public. Buses will be organized from the Theater Square of Tskhinval for those wishing to take part in the mourning meeting,” the ministry said.
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.
