Tragedy of South Ossetia. Muldarova Marina Georgievna, 42 years old
23.03.2009 // 22:24

Muldarova Marina Georgievna, 42 years old, Tskhinval resident:

In the childhood, when I read the books about Great Patriotic war, about the brutality of fascists, I was glad to live in a peacetime. I couldn`t imagine even in the nightmare that I`ll be an eyewitness of three wars: 1989-1991, 2004 and 2008.

But the military aggression of 2008 year has eclipsed all the others in its cruelty. That night – from the 7^th to the 8^th of August - became a sorrowful date of a history of Ossetian people, when the disloyal, inherently monstrous military aggression against Ossetian people, peacefully sleeping Tskhinval occurred.

That night Saakashvili announced for “The News” that Georgia was not going to attack South Ossetia, he also declared about the truce. Everybody went to bed early so that to have a rest after the last sleepless nights.

At about 12 a.m. we woke up from the deafening explosions. We together with my mother ran to the neighbours because we had no a basement. We spent three days and nights in this basement. The inhabitants of the nearby streets - October St. and Pushkin St.

(there were about 50 persons) - were here too. There weren’t any meal there, but nobody remembered about it, everyone was in horror and we felt a lump in the throat. And only by help of the endurance and self-control of the owners of the house - Gabaraev Vladislav (Bay) and Siukaeva Naira, everybody kept calm. There were children, aged from 2 months till 15 years old, women and elderly together with us in the basement. It seemed that children realized the tragic element of a situation, nobody of them behaved capriciously, nobody cried. In spite of the fact that children ate nothing for the whole day, they did not even demand anything. Risking his life, our house-owner found somewhere some bread and the condensed milk and came home so that the kids could support their depleted organisms by something.

The city was under the heavy shelling with all kinds of heavy weaponry and “Grad” rocket systems. The air bombardment was also used and it was impossible to leave a basement for a minute – there were the explosions and fire everywhere. Despite of the fear, everybody tried to support each other even in a word.

When the Georgian tanks entered the city and began to fire at the streets of a city, we were really shocked. Everyone, having despaired, mentally said goodbye to a life, especially when the Georgian tank has stopped in the next court yard and began to fire at the houses, and the Georgian speech was clearly audible.

On August, 9, one of the shells of “Grad” hit the house of my neighbours. The mother and her daughter, Muscovite, who arrived to look after the elderly mother, took cover in a cellar. During one of the respites they got out of a cellar and went up the first floor. At that moment the daughter Abaeva Lejla was killed, and her mother, Zoya Valieva, was wounded by the direct hit of a “Grad” shell.

There is no house in the city, which is not suffer, because each area was fired purposefully in order to destroy the peaceful citizens and to wipe South Ossetia off the face of the earth. A shell hit the Valievs` house, situated on Pushkin St.

, the house burned to the ground. The elderly woman Kabisova Sonya, aged 80, left in a cellar. The neighbour Kochiev Valery, risking his life, took the woman out of the burning house and, creeping between the houses, took her in our cellar. Here we helped her as we could, somehow calmed her down, and sent to a hospital in the morning.

Nanieva Mary was wounded by large shrapnel in the leg in the court yard. She lost a lot of blood before she got in our cellar. We helped her too, and in two days sent her to Vladikavkaz for the treatment.

Being in a cellar, we learned the awful news about the brother of our neigbour, Irina Dzhussoeva, who was together with us in a cellar. He wanted to take out his family to Vladikavkaz. But the Georgian tank has shot at point-blankrange the car, where the family of Dzhussoev was: the father and two children. For several days nobody could make the way to the burnt car because of incessant bombardment. And only when the Russian troops entered the city, they managed to get to a place of tragedy.

For a long time we could not believe the news, that the city would be released.

Our “humane” neighbours “love” Ossetians, by shooting and killing women, children and elderly.

Translated by Tatiana Inozemtseva

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