22.04.2009 00:10 | The splinters have torn his body to pieces

It’s terrible to imagine a state of a mother who found her son’s body torn to pieces… She gave him birth, brought up; he was the meaning and stimulus of her life... The resident of Tskhinval city Etery Dzhioeva, who lost her dear son Alan Ataev (born in 1971) in the days of tragic August events, suffered this terrible fate. Georgian aggression took the dearest people: sons, daughters, relatives from many mothers...

Alan Ataev (Atos) lived and worked in Tskhinval. He worked as a dentalprothetist at the private dental clinic “Fidar” on

On the eve of hostilities Alan sent his wife and son to Vladikavkaz and stayed in Tskhinval together with his parents and the sister, who lived at Stalin's street, opposite to a building of the pediatric polyclinic.

Etery, depressed at the grief mother of Alan, tells about the tragedy of her family with the tears in her eyes: “At night from the 7^th to the 8^th of August, when Georgian army attacked Tskhinval, we had been at home with my husband, daughter and Alan. Alan was a reservist soldier and wanted to go to a civil guardsmen command post, but I asked him not to leave us, the parents, alone. His father has an akinesia as a result of stress disease, we had to carry him on our hands and I asked my son to help me in nursing. I said him: “You are not hiding and they do not call in. If there is a necessity, you will be called in”.

22.04.2009 00:07 | The Tragedy of Kozaevs Family

There are not only separate citizens in mournful martyrology of the victims of Georgian aggression against South Ossetia, but also the wholes families. One of these lost families was Kozaevs family, which lived at Gennady Dzhabiev Street.

The head of the family Albert Kozaev was a respectable, frugal and kind man. During all his life he worked as a photographer. On Soviet time he worked at a photostudio, and after the disintegration of the Soviet Union he had private practice. Theatrical Square was his favourite place of employment, he photographed the children against the background of a fountain. His old mother Maria Kozaeva, wife Bella and elder brother Irakly lived together with him.

At night from the 7^th to the 8^th of August, when Tskhinval was under heavy shelling, Kozaevs family tried to take cover from the shells. As the neighbours said, in the morning of August, 8, nobody saw Kozaevs family. They didn’t even managed to leave the house. The artillery shell exploded right in a court yard of the house from side of the homestead land. There is a huge funnel in a concrete land. On the one part Maria and Albert laid, it seemed that mother tried to shield the son with her body and save him. Albert`s wife Bella was at the threshold near the entrance door. Explosion occurred when she was at the door. From the way of body placement she, probably, opened the door and at that moment the shell landed. According to the traces of blood, after the explosion she was still alive and tried to get out of the house… Two more shells destroyed the stairway to the second floor and damaged the kitchen on the ground floor.

17.04.2009 20:54 | Elizabeth Petrachenko: “When I saw our destroyed city, I wanted to cry”

I am only 12 years old, but I have already gone through two wars: in 2004 and 2008. From that war, in 2004, I have remembered me and my mother were coming home and they began to shoot at us from the direction of the village Tamarashen. We were running along the street and my mother was in front of me, in case things went wrong the bullet hit my mum instead of me.

On August, 1, 2008 the shelling started again. All of us were at home on the ground floor. My little sisters were sitting on the sofa, they were very frightened and even started to tremble with fear and cry. They nestled to the grandfather and asked him why they were shooting again. We spent there much time, all other days and nights they were shooting too. I remember, about three o’clock mum woke me up and told to go downwards, because there was a shelling again. All of us went down because it was a safe place. We fall asleep there.

On August, 6 we went to the market and bought the products as a reserve. Mum said that it was necessary to buy food in case of war, because the shops would be closed.

14.04.2009 23:19 | He Was Shot in a Court Yard of His House

7-year-old Alan and three-month-old Milena lost their father's love and care in result of Georgian aggression. Georgian invaders shot their father Vilen Chibirov in cold blood at his native house.

Vilen was 33 years old, he graduated from sports faculty of SOSU. For some years he was carrying out his service in a home guard. On the eve of the military operations, on August, 7, he sent his wife and two children to Vladikavkaz, and defending his native town he took up arms. His father Valiko and mother Nazi Bekoeva-Chibirova stayed in Vladikavkaz. Chibirovs family lived in the end of

in the area of school №12. After heavy preparatory bombardment the Georgian military hardware and infantry invaded there. On August, 9 Georgian army, being turned out the day before, entered city again. They took the residents of two-storied building hostage, there were Vilen`s parents among the hostages. As black-robed Vilen`s mother Nazi tells, her son mounted guard from the beginning of Georgian aggression and she took cover in a basement together with her husband and the neighbours. Firstly we were hiding out from the bombardments and then - from enemy tanks, which having entered the city fired at the apartment houses.  

14.04.2009 23:14 | The Enemy Bullet Cut Short His Life

People of South Ossetia managed to stand up and keep the independence after the bloody invasion of the numerous Georgian armed forces on August of this year.

They paid a heavy price for the victory: thousands of civilians died in result of the aggression. Quite a number of the citizen soldiers gave up their lives for the honour and radiant future of our republic.

Albert Tedeev was one of the valiant defenders of the independence of South Ossetia and the devoted patriot of his nation. On August, 30 he would be turned 44. He was shot by Georgian sniper on August, 11 in area of Ergnet village during the clean-up operation, when citizen soldiers and Russian peacemakers mopped up the territory of South Ossetia from occupational forces of Georgian Ministry of Defence.

His wife Raisa Arsoeva and two sons aged 14 and 13 are left without their unfailing friend, breadwinner and shield and buckler of the family.

Albert Sevaevich Tedeev was born in village Erzo. From the age of 13 he was growing up fatherless; his father died an unexpected death.  Three years ago he entered the people's volunteer corps, his company mounted guard in the area of a knitting factory. Earlier Albert used to work in law machinery of RSO, he was given the rank of junior sergeant.