The Ered tragedy is one of the many evidences of the policy of genocide that the Georgian leadership had been pursuing against the Ossetian people for a whole century, South Ossetian Foreign Ministry comments.
The Ministry noted that "this bloody and inhumane event, which took place 32 years ago, still shocks with its special cruelty and cynicism, remaining the open wound in the historical memory of the people."
“The facts of the massacres of Ossetians, starting from the genocide of 1920 and until August 2008, have not yet been given a proper legal assessment by the world community. Moreover, it was the tacit connivance of the international community, generous funding and confidence in the impunity of the Georgian leaders in their crimes that made the tragedy of August 2008 possible,” the Foreign Ministry stressed.
It has been added that such atrocities are not subject to oblivion and are an incessant reminder of what severe trials the South Ossetian people had to overcome on the way to the statehood.
