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The Zar tragedy of May 20, 1992. Witnesses' memories.

Alla Dzhioeva, senior lecturer of the journalism department of the South-Ossetian State University:

No any sensible person will forget the day of the Zar tragedy not only in South Ossetia, but in the whole world, for the shooting of the Ossetian ordinary citizens, including the children, by the Georgian neo-fascists cannot leave anyone indifferent. At that time I was a student of the Faculty of Journalism of the North-Ossetian State University.

The Zartragedy ofMay 20, 1992. Witnesses' memories.

MelitonKazity, Chairman of the Writers' Union ofSouth Ossetia:

I learned about theZartragedy from the townspeople. Everybody wasin panic.That daymany people were drivingon that road and everyone was trying tolearnanythingabout his relatives, friendsand acquaintances.Some time later thetruck approachedthe hospitalwith thedead.

The Zar tragedy of May 20, 1992. The witnesses' memories.

Zamira Dzhioeva, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of South Ossetia:

The Zar tragedy of 1992 cannot be explained. Defenseless children, women and the old people were killedthat day. Could a normal person do so? And one has got upon the idea that they were monsters, because they had not spared even babies.

The Zar tragedy of May 20, 1992. Witnesses' memoirs.

Nikolai Dzagoev, chief surgeon of the Republican Hospital of South Ossetia, Candidate of Medicine, Member of Parliament:
1992, Tskhinval was under blockade. At all heights of the city were snipers, shelling all the streets. In connection with this situation was urgently constructed the road in Dzau (Dzausky District RSO) through the village of Zar, which was called the "lifeline." The Zar road was very rugged, with vehicle queues, but not everyone could drive and sometimes people had to walk.

Comment of the press-service of the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of South Ossetia

May 15, 2012 the newspaper "View" carried a statement of the Chairman of the Committee for Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Matteo Mekachchi, which he had made in Georgia. He said that OSCE "is going to restore the mission in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict" in July. This statement has caused great surprise in Tskhinval. In South Ossetia one has heard nothing about this intention of theOSCE; we have not received any form of address, so any negotiations are not being conducted with the authorities of the Republic of South Ossetia.

South Ossetia and Russia will establish a consultation mechanism for direct contact on addressing the problems facing the Republic. This has been declared by the Russian President Vladimir Putin at a briefing in Sochi after the meeting with President of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov.

A meeting of the parliamentary delegation of South Ossetia headed by the Acting Speaker of thelegislative body of South Ossetia Zurab Kokoev with the Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Sergey Naryshkin has been held in Moscow. During the meeting Naryshkin called for further strengthening of ties between the parliaments of both countries.

The delegation of South Ossetia headed by the President of the Republic Leonid Tibilov left for Sochi for participating in the South Ossetian-Russian summit talks.
As IA "Res" has been informed by the presidential administration of South Ossetia, the meeting will be held in Sochi on May 12 within the framework of the first working visit of the RSO President Leonid Tibilov to the Russian Federation.
It should be noted that the visit to Russia is the first foreign trip of Leonid Tibilov after becoming a president of South Ossetia.

President of the Republic of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in the Republic of South Ossetia Elbrus Kargiev at his request. During the meeting they discussed a wide range of issues of bilateral cooperation.

Despite the appeals of the international community to peoples all over the world to adhere to civilized forms of settling controversial issues, the armed conflicts remain a spirit of our time and bring humans sufferings and misery. Awareness of this poor reality was a powerful spur to create the international human rights institutions and the different humanitarian organizations.