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35A Tsereteli St.
Refugee shelter
13 August 2008
Mamisashvili Venera, 51, resident of Eredvi (village in S. Ossetia)
I left on 11th of August. At first they told us there would be terrible
bombardments. That's why we left…we were hiding on the valleys at first, but
they did not allow us to stay there either. So I decided to go back to the
village, because, you know, my heart was pushing me there, I did not want to
leave my house. They were urging me to leave, saying "go auntie (Georgian
way of calling an unknown woman), go, leave", but I was insisting on
entering my house. Finally, they forcefully took me out of the house. Bombs
were being dropped in every corner, it was getting blurry, you would not be
able to see anything in a few minutes… bombs destroyed everything, people
were dying. Even though military base is far from the village, civilians
were involved in the fight as well. They were tackling the civilians.
Village is 5-6 kilometers away from the base. However, bombs were dropped
right in the heart of it. One of the bombs was dropped on a bus getting
civilians out of the gorge. Houses were burnt down along with the people in
them. I got out; I am sitting here and crying now. We walked all the way
here; I don't even remember how we got to this place.
We have not seen the troops. We were frightened because of the bombs. All
the glasses in our houses shattered. If they got into the house, they would
have broken everything, they would harm our cattle. It's true that the house
is still there, but it is burnt down. I am here and I don't know exactly in
what conditions it is, but people say the villages have been burnt down and
destroyed.
At first there were a few gun shots, I don't know if Russians or Ossetians
were shooting, but I guess they were Russian, because they were holding
Russia's flags. Troops were definitely from Russia. They were shooting from
what we call Russian spots.
We were not afraid of the shots, because we could hide in a lot of places,
but bombs scared us to death. That's why everybody left the village.
Airplanes and fighters were
bombing us. Houses were destroyed, cattle were killed, and people were
dead.
Our relatives are still there. I have a sister in Vanati. Can you imagine?
She is walking through the village during those bombardments, when everyone
is shooting. She is hiding in the bushes sometimes. We need help to get
people like my sister out of the village, they need help… How can we get
them out of the village?
That's the trouble we are in. See how our country has been destroyed? My
heart is aching…

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