Moscow is hosting the events dedicated to the eleventh anniversary of the tragic events in South Ossetia, which in August 2008 was subjected to armed aggression by Georgia. On the territory of the embassy of South Ossetia, the state flag of the Republic was lowered.
South Ossetia has recognized as a genocide not only the events of 1920, as has already been done, but also the events of 2008, the President of the Republic, Anatoly Bibilov, said.
In 2007, the South Ossetian Parliament decided to recognize the events of 1920 as genocide, when the Menshevik army of Georgia had invaded. According to the Parliament, about 5300 people were killed and killed while fleeing through the mountains, which amounted to 6-8% of the total population of South Ossetia.
August 2008 Five days of war. 11 years later. Journalists are telling about the war in South Ossetia
Ashraf El Sabbah, Russian publicist, journalist and translator:
Despite the fact that 11 years have passed since the criminal events of the Saakashvili regime, I remember August 8, 2008 very vividly, since we flew from Moscow to Tbilisi at the nighton August 7 t- 8 and saw almost everything with our own eyes from the first minutes.
August 2008. Five days of the war. 11 years later. Russian journalists are telling about the war in South Ossetia
Each viewer of the Rossiya and TVC television channels knows his face in a helmet with the inscription “press”, his reports are almost always saturated with gunpowder and blood. Evgeny Poddubny, a military journalist:
August 8, 2008 is a day of endless tragedies and quiet hope. Every 10 minutes, my friends and I learned that one of our close friends had died or, on the contrary, had survived.
There are 197 people in the Support Fund for the Wounded Disabled during the Hostilities in South Ossetia from 1992 to 2008, eight guys did not live up to the eleventh anniversary of the August war, the head of the Fund Madina Plieva said at a briefing in the State Committee for Information and Press.
“And many are alive thanks to the prompt and professional help of our doctors, who today help the disabled guys,” Plieva says with tears in her eyes.
Mourning events dedicated to the next anniversary of the war in August 2008 will be held in South Ossetia.
According to the Minister of Culture of the Republic Zhanna Zasseeva, the commemorative action " A tear of bitter memory " will be held on August 7-8.
The European Court of Human Rights refused 7 out of 1,500 citizens of South Ossetia to consider claims against Georgia on the events of military aggression in August 2008,told Res agency Inal Tasoev, Presidential Commissioner of South Ossetia for human rights.
The war in August 2008
On the night of August 11, Tskhinval was again being shelled, despite the fact that earlier the Georgian army had retreated to the administrative border with South Ossetia. That night the South Ossetian security forces captured 19 Georgian subversives.
The war in August 2008
August 10, 2008 Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin arrived in the North Ossetian capital Vladikavkaz, where he held a meeting to coordinate assistance to the refugees from South Ossetia.
"What is happening in South Ossetia - is the genocide of the Ossetian people, and legally Russia's actions in South Ossetia are fully justified", - Putin said.
The Russian Prime Minister described the situation in South Ossetia as the "humanitarian catastrophe."