A man from village Zubaani
I was walking in Zubaani where I got a car and moved towards Eredvi. On the way we were bombed twice. I jumped out of the car and went village by village. I came to Korda on foot at 12 p.m. Many people died in Eredvi. I hadn't taken anything just a pocket torch to have a light at night. Valley is fully destroyed, houses are burnt. It makes no difference whether it is my own house or not. All my family is here. I have not any information if anybody is still left there.
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Personal story
We've hardly managed to leave the village. I have four grandchildren- four little children. It was terrible to see Russian bombs fall, houses burn and turn into ruins. I don't even know whether our house is still standing. Yesterday I learned they crashed houses and killed my neighbors. Don't know anything else. We are here now.
A woman from Karaleti
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Captives
In Gori region Russian occupants and Ossetian bands continue marauding. They attack civilians, there are casualties. Russian militaries capture civilians as prisoners of war from Gori and surrounding villages and take them to Tskhinvali and Vladikavkaz for interrogations. We contacted a resident of village Mereti, Mr. Koba is on live broadcast.
- Mr. Koba as we know Russians tried to capture you as war prisoner, how did you escape?
- Mr. Nugzar in village Mereti Ossetians came with tanks and cars. They captures 17 of us and brought us in village Tkviavi. They brought us in the center of the village and ordered us to lay face down. We were lying for an hour while they captured 5-7 more people. Then they put us in the car, we were around 25 people. Then they called somewhere reporting that they had 25 people, then they said that we were young, probably they received an order to take us in Tskinvali. When we arrived in Tskinvali, one of my friends said that "they will anyway kill us", so we jumped into the cabin and the car overturned. The car was moving fast around 100 km/h. Four of us could get out of the car and run away, Ossetians were firing at us. In sum around twenty people escaped. The car exploded after 6-7 minutes.
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Tal vom Didi Liachwi ist komplett ruiniert – Atschabeti, Tkviavi, Tamarascheni. Alle georgische Dörfer sind völlig ruiniert. Das ganze Tal ist in Brand. Es steht sogar kein Haus mehr. Es wurde auch Ateni bombardiert. Auf meinem Haus sind vier Bomben gefallen. Wir, meine Kinder und Enkelkinder haben kaum geschafft rauszukommen. Unser Kind ist 10 Monate alt. Die haben auf uns mit grossen Explodierungsmittel geschossen. Wir haben uns mal auf dem Boden hingelegt, mal sind wir gerannt. Es wurden Autos aus den Familien rausgehollt. Ich habe gesehen: die haben Auto angehalten, der Fahrer wollte es nicht geben, er hatte argumentiert, dass er mit grossem Pein geschafft hat es zu kaufen. Er hat die Waffe rausgehollt und den Fahrer erschossen. Das andere Auto kam, der Fahrer wurde aus dem Auto rausgeschmiessen und das Auto wurde weggeraubt.
Ich bin bis Gori zu Fuss gekommen und ich bin 72 Jahre alt. Es ist enormes Unglück. Autos werden geraubt. Ich habe gar nichts mehr. Ich habe ein Kind seit einem Jahr verloren. Sind wir in diesem Unglück? Ich weiss gar nichts mehr...
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Frau aus Karaleti: Wir haben kaum geschafft zu entfliehen. Ich habe vier Enkelkinder – vier mindejährige Kinder. Es war ein entsätzliches Bild: ich habe gesehen wie die Bomben gefallen sind, wie die Häuser verfallen und verbrannt wurden. Momentan weiss ich nicht, ob unser Haus steht oder nicht. Ich habe gestern erfahren, dass die Häuser zerstört und unsere Nachbar erschossen wurden. Mehr weiss ich nicht, dann bin ich hier gekommen.
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Frau aus dem Gegend Zchinvali: Ich weiss nicht was es vorgeht. Als wir bombardiert wurden, bin ich entflohen, und seitdem weiss ich nichts. Ich habe alles gelassen. Ich bin seit drei Tagen weg. Ich bin ohne Wohnung geblieben und niemand kümmert sich um mich. Ich bin 67 Jahre alt.
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Tamazi aus Eredwi:
Als Eredwi bombardiert wurde, es war die erste Bombardierung und ich bin dabei gewesen. Als ich zu Hause gekommen bin, könnte ich weder Brille noch Papiere finden, dann begann die zweite Bombardierung. Es gibt sehr grosser Zahl der Gestorbenen. Ich bin ein kranker Mann, ich bin durch die Tür gekrochen... Unsere Militärjungs waren drauβen, die haben mich mit dem Auto bis Gori gefahren. Ich habe gedacht, dass ich mich bisschen behandeln lassen und dann zurückkehren würde. Dann, als Gori bombardiert wurde bin ich mit einem Minibus gefahren, der nach Tbilisi gefahren ist. Jetzt bin ich bei meinen Verwandten, ich darf nicht stehen und deshalb liege ich. Mein und mein Sohns Haus sind völlig zerstört. Ich habe gar nichts mitgenommen. Schuhe und Hose habe ich ausgeliehen.
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Frau aus Tkviavi:
Wir wurden bis Achabeti mit dem Auto gebracht und dann wurden wir da gelasensen. Ich habe dem Bruder meines Mannes angerufen, er ist mit dem Auto angekommen und hat uns abgehollt. Es gab kein einziges Auto damals in Tkviavi. Wenn sie meine Schwigermutter gesehen hätten, sie ist blinde, arme Frau. Aber wenn ich sie nicht abgehollt hätte, würde auch mein Mann nicht mitkommen, er würde seine Mitter nicht allein lassen. Schwiegermutter meiner Kusine ist gestorben, als sie entflohen sind.
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Simon from the village of Nikozi, Gori region:
I left yesterday. They fired shells from helicopters and pursuit planes. What firing it was by Russians! They led an air attack. The Georgian villages were shelled: Upper Nikozi and Lower Nikozi. I reached my home crawling all the way. My mother was staying there. I could not get her out. She walks via two crutches. She is 82 years old and she is still there. The only thing I could do was that I gave her my cell phone and instructed how to use it. Until now I managed to contact her. Supposedly the battery is dead now; there is no electricity to charge it. I cannot contact her anymore. I have no idea what is going on there. The houses are burnt and demolished. No one is there. Almost 95% has left. People died. People died before my leaving and after it. People that could not be taken out are buried by their relatives in their own yards. Now the village is empty, neither Ossetians, nor Georgians remained there. Maybe ten or fifteen elderly people are present. No army is standing there.
There is Nikozi diocesan Church in our village. Yesterday, when I came there, found the bishop Isaia and his congregation praying. The shelling started just at that moment. The monastery was also bombed. The Bishop had to take his congregation out of there. We were going along the gates on foot. I asked my mother to follow us slowly, on foot. She decided she could not go. Then I kissed her and left, saying, "Mother, come what may."
We passed several villages on foot. The Bishop contacted the priest Andria, who came for us with a minibus from Gori. Only the bishop Isaia and the priest Antoni left behind, saying "We cannot leave now" and they went back under fire and this disaster. They are there even today. We left. I could imagine anything, but shelling the Orthodox Church.
We left Gori on a minibus. The people were coming on foot. The army was still there. When we were passing by, we saw how they were being bombed. However, our minibus escaped without damage. There was nothing sacred for them, neither church, nor anything – everything was shelled.
We were hiding under the threes. It is hard to hide away from a shell. Even previously they used to shell us. Everybody is helping. The faster we are back, the better, though going back… well, we can go back, but how will we manage to live there? Ossetians are all around. From the edge of my house, their village starts. There is even no boundary between our villages. There is even no 100 meters distance between them. We will be subjected to permanent suppression there; they will do with us whatever they wish. These last years the people managed to reconcile. So we were living peacefully.
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Lali Jaoshvili, Kekhvi
I left three days ago. There was terrible shooting. We arrived to village Eredvi and it was also attacked. We were trying to get out of there with a car and save ourselves. Some were leaving by foot. We did not care about bringing anything with us from home. My husband remained in the forest. We all sobbed for him because thought that he died but apparently he hid and then fell into a ditch and survived.
Afterwards my mother-in-law died and my son received psychological shock from watching these horrible things. He hid in the forest and refused to come with us. That's how he is now.
First there was shellfire and afterwards the tanks came in.
All the villages and the houses are destroyed.
One Russian told us to leave immediately because they would build a new town there.
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Manana from Nikozi
Before the latest events started a bomb hit village Nikozi. There was destruction but we survived. The following two days were peaceful.
Afterwards when the shooting started we left everything behind, left our cattle tied up and ran away. There was shellfire.
I don't know the condition of my house at present, my mother stayed there and I can't get in touch with her, she does not have a telephone. We are five in the family and all of us left with the exception of her. My sister was hiding in the basement for two days.
We arrived to Gori which was also bombed and had to run away from there, Russian were bombing us. The bomb hit a house next to us and everyone left.
We were told that the invaders are robbing the houses and taking everything with them, and that they are Osetians. Our villages are adjacent to each other. I was working in Tskhinvali and we did not have a conflict, no one warned us that there would be a war.
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