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Villages in Shida Kartli Are Still Looted After the War

March 13, 2009

 Nargiza Aghdgomelashvili

There are some families from buffer zone who still cannot return to their homes because their villages are located close to the administrative boarder with South Ossetia. Although hostilities have stopped between Russia and Georgia, Russian soldiers are still deployed in Ossetian villages. Ossetian people permanently attack ethnic Georgians.

Nargiza Aghdgomelashvili, a resident of the village of Zardiaantkari in Gori district left the village on November 8, 2008. The family did not want to leave the village but their life was already in danger and they left the place. The village borders with Ossetian village of Khelchua. Ossetians are permanently shooting in the village and they are always ready to appropriate cows and other things. However, there are Ossetian families who sheltered Georgians in their homes during the war in 2008.

Currently, there are no Georgians in the village of Zardiaantkari except several families who have Ossetian relatives and they can guarantee their safety.

“During heavy gun-fire we sheltered at the house of our Ossetian neighbor and spent nights there. When my son arrived in the village Ossetians attacked us and took three cows. So, we left the village because we got very afraid; we spent one week in the village of Satemo, Gori district. However, we returned back in a week because we were worrying about the house.”

Nargiza Ghdgomelashvili recalled that they often sheltered at their Ossetian neighbor; she used to visit the Ossetian woman in the evening. One day, when Georgians killed Ossetian boy, the people said Ossetians would revenge this murder by killing as many Georgians as the age of the killed Ossetian boy. After this accident, Ossetian woman suggested Nargiza Aghdgomelashvili to move from the village. “When Ossetians arrived in our village to revenge Georgians, Ossetian neighbor came to my house and suggested to move to her house,” said Aghdgomelashvili. That night Ossetians robbed several houses in the village.

After the incident, Nargiza Aghdgomelashvili left the village. Initially she sheltered in Gori nursery school # 10 together with her family, but now they are living at their relative’s. The only aid they get from the government is bread.

Tea Tedliashvili, Gori

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