Translated material
"Regular customers" of war
The correspondent of Gazeta observed a hunt for looters in Gori and in the territory of South Ossetia in the Georgian city of Gori for the second day of the streets is patrolled by Georgian police. In the center on the square in front of the city executive committee, there are few traces of war - only a small funnel on the asphalt and windows in the surrounding houses were left without glasses. Near the houses are inhabitants in groups. It turned out that most residents remained in the city. As they admit, no one expected that Russian troops would appear so quickly. Unlike Georgian villages located along the path from Tskhinvali, not only women and old people, but also men of draft age, come across in Gori on the streets.A local resident Marina says that the Russians were thrown a bomb near the city executive committee. “They threw a lot of bombs into the city, bombed the tank part,” she says. - The whole area where the textile factory was burned out. Then Russian tanks entered, and then robberies began. ”
President of South Ossetia Kokoita sent the whole government to resign This was done, as declared in Tskhinvili, for "reorganization of the government to the Extraordinary Headquarters." It is still unclear that members of the previous government will transfer to the headquarters, but it is known that the cocoys are extremely dissatisfied that the distribution of humanitarian assistance was not established in the city after the battles in the city. |
Marina indignantly begins to wave her hands, and tears flow down his cheeks. “Where was our power all these days? All this was so unexpected. I don’t know how to live on, ”she says and wipes her tears.
After a pause, she continues. “My neighbors were robbed and burned by their house. They break into the door, one under the muzzle of the machine gun holds a family, the rest take things out. It’s very scary,” Marina admits. “All these days it was impossible to get through, there was no one from the leadership in the city.”
A Georgian patrol of five people armed with machine guns passes and removes past us in the area of the Stalin House-Museum. Then on Gorky Street I meet another patrol, and these people do not have machine guns. The police go independently, unaccompanied by the Russian military. Russian soldiers also patrol the streets on foot and with weapons. At large intersections there are Russian posts - several soldiers in body armor, helmets, and walkie -talkies. But there is no particular tension between them and the townspeople - women came up to them and asked about something.
A people gathered near the 6th Gorian school, 100 people. They say that they will soon give bread and rice. But people are not in line, but a crowd. Apparently, who is stronger, and he will get.
A little later, already in Tskhinvali, deputy commander of the BCV, Lieutenant General Vyacheslav Golovchenko, having heard my question about the looters, said: "We will catch and give under the tribunal. If they are armed, if we see that they were not only robbed, but also killed someone, then the execution in place."
| The victims of the war interfere with the border guards Despite the emergency with a huge number of refugees, forced immigrants and relatives who need to regularly move between the North and Southern Ossetia, the regional border department of the Russian FSB in the Southern Federal District has stopped issuing temporary certificates to cross the Russian-Georgian border at the Nizhny Zaramag design checkpoint. From now on, citizens who suffered from the war should apply for permits to the headquarters of the regional department in North Ossetia in Vladikavkaz. Bureaucrats in green uniform explain this with a large accumulation of people at the checkpoint that interfere with the promotion of goods and refugees. |
“Here what burned, the rest was taken to Tskhinvali,” Igor explains.
We are going to South Ossetia. At the building of the old bus park in Tskhinvili, instead of civilian buses, there is a bunch of military relatively new equipment, clearly driven from Georgia. Among the trophies, a familiar old American truck, all conquered, on the bumper with yellow paint, the inscription "Yamadaevtsy". Nearby is a new truck painted according to the American type. “Ukrainian,” the officer notes nearby. “But this is a command and staffing car.” He opens her doors. Inside the chair and air conditioners. “Their officer corps was sitting here,” the officer adds. Tanks, BMP, SAU, Zeru are in a row against each other. Everywhere the symbols of the Georgian army. “There are 150 trophy units of heavy equipment,” says General Golovchenko. 65 tanks, BMP alone, completely new, mileage 300 -400 km. They are all modified by Ukraine, they are all modified, they are all modernized Bulgaria, part of the military technology of the Soviet era.
In front of the Government House is the Minister of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia Mikhail Minzaev. Approaching him, I ask about the fight against looting. He replies that there will be no such phenomenon in the city. “There are no looters, there are ordinary thieves who shamefully rob people,” the minister replies. - Seven criminal cases have already been instituted. "
On Saturday, two young people were detained in Tskhinvili who endured things from someone else's house. With them there was a weapon. They began to make excuses: the owner of the house asked us to pick up something for his family. So one of them says, Tamaz. His parents fled in the 1990s from Georgia to North Ossetia, then moved to South Ossetia. According to Tamaz, he does not work anywhere. Police officers learned their “regular client” in him, and by the radio contacted the city commandant. Before clarifying the circumstances, he ordered the detainees to him to the commandant’s office.
08/17/2008 / Madina Shavlokhova / Gor - Tskhinvali, the material was published in the "newspaper" No. 154 dated 08/18/2008.