there was debris everywhere you looked there were burnt trees. it was a horrible site. you know should i'm already thinking of settling down here. i. think there is divine you can not enjoy it the climate is definitely. i love this. for its hospitality for its mountains group boards proud people.

who he. built i worked around the clock on the ambulance from the seventh of august until eleven for. five days without a break we were terrified. but we also calls on the phone we carried the injured under fire and that was all right. but when they started shooting machine guns and mortars it was more difficult. the georgians were already there at the hospital they started attacking. they fired grad multiple rocket so that left a huge hole in the building we ran through the hole and saw a georgian ahmed car outside. go i crawled in and took a machine gun we carried machine guns with us when we went on coals.

we were on duty for twenty four hours mostly man of course but the worst some women feel matters to. me which on the seventh we decided to get some rest and i left my deputy in my place the regular shift and driver were on duty i went home. i was up . there was just to see well what i suggest immediately goes. and it will confirm what i said three years ago to grow. unlimited autonomy and self-government to look at some. georgian television was broadcasting sack i should release message about this peace initiative literally every thirty minutes everyone involved believed he's the president after all.

all of it turns thirty two in july and in august he was killed his in the sittin here the last time we talked was on the evening of the seventh during saakashvili speech i'd come down a bit when he called i said can't you take a break for a few days there lympics or go no and maybe they won't do anything he'll have to be too early and sat alone there what are you talking about you have no idea there is no end to george's military vehicles. what are they for do they just want to show us their strength is what on the eve of the eighth of august the minister of defense sent him to oversee the southern border and to provide coordinates here watch them approaching the border he's so how many vehicles they had she knew what was coming. down he

was wounded in the chest way shall fragment bleeding heavily he managed to send a message saying he'd been detected by the enemy. they started firing grad rockets after eleven thirty pm right beside my house it was terrible everything was burning it sounded like a thunderstorm it was all shaking as we found out later the first wave of rockets took out all our television broadcasts. out of the city was on fire nobody knew what was happening it was the first time they'd fired grad rockets they used to fire missiles before one or two but this time it was completely different. in the morning we were all in the underground shelter i think you know what to do

next there was no communication only tanks all around us we came out to find georgian democracy in our streets. for bush and bush it felt almost like a computer game that was the impression from the us but it wouldn't go to the course when they started shooting i knew i had to find shelter behind our walls. so we did it was the most interesting thing is that we had our staff on the second floor. we opened an extra exit there was a post made that up the georgian infantry went through. the floor above us occupied by our soldiers the city's electricity had been cut off for the substation to be blown up the night before those we kept working it was crucial for us that we had our work and we were side by side with the soldiers and the government we were in the right place. and there was a bathroom we have water course no one wanted to eat because of nervous tension i

lost five kilograms would you. judge us the russian troops entered the city on the eleventh after that our girls started to come back if they cleared out the debris. and we were already on air on the fourteenth. to tell you the truth all our lives have been postponed for the past twenty years because of what. we had put our wishes off for the future we told ourselves that in time well show would recognize our state that maybe even the us would eventually do the same. of others and then we'd live happily we don't have a sea side and visit western countries we just can't do it now. we were happy to wake up in the morning and know that our relatives were safe and none of our friends were dead and that was our greatest joy back then with the ball now we can

live freely if we can feel the breath of freedom and certainly we have much more to be happy about now congratulations everyone. of course we learned a lot of terrible things a lot of sad stories. one mother and daughter had a gas tank hit near their house when a shell hit it and everything went up in flames the idea was the mother tried to cover her daughter with her own body. they were both badly burned with. bush the daughter died on the second day but her mother never knew about it she went blind and after two weeks in a coma she died to know that she never knew that her daughter had died. soon or were my son was thirty seven. my daughter was meant team my son was sixteen . we're going to rio he didn't get. the news he was still in the city and trying to

we're going in his direction where our movie fired point blank at his car a shell blew up your guru he had a lot or he just flew into the street. it all happened there. they were shooting. my family. and i was left alone it's usually because my son wasn't driving at all because i wasn't even military and what was he doing there were children inside not fighters where we. flew they were killed instantly real does it i looked and saw that they had fallen and. i didn't know what to do. before bush knew the infantry follow the tanks order i came and told kerosene on the bodies. you know. i had nothing left to bury but their ashes.

it was terrible. the truth was to blame i don't know. what were our children guilty of. and i don't know. perhaps i haven't let them go when you were going to still be alive now. how could i know the georgians were already on the city. they could have survived like i did and that's ella there's no i couldn't see how i could go on living and i still not no. she was pregnant at the time. in two thousand and nine she gave birth to a baby. my grandson. i was on the brink of taking my own life what else could i live for. such as for now it was born exactly nine months after the

conflict i didn't even know i was pregnant. we're filming i didn't care. i didn't even want to run what would happen to him in fifteen years would he be killed to. me. rather startled i live for my grandson. he's the only joy in my life is true i have no wish for a better life who. i just want to bring up my grandson for as long as i can do nothing else interests me of like a living corpse will. i believe in god. he gave me my son. whom god gave me strength. once i said to a believer i said to her there's no board for simple worker is wiser than the god you praise so much. who he asked why did i speak against god. i said that when

a farmer grows cold in the potatoes he looks at the sea it's a white house the way the bad ones and in the autumn he gets a good harvest. the farmer destroys the beautiful but useless seeds. incrementals live longer than good people. the richest man replied. god does the same thing. he takes the good seeds with what he doesn't want the bad ones. that. don't go the body i sell wooden spoons and x. show spear in the market. do move you want to the why. and people are taking a rest by larger come here and look around. i like to talk to people. who takes my mind off my grief but i'm tired very much money here.

but you know what i thought. they can't live without me they're really needed me here so how can make up no one there are. three now i hate all georgians. be my enemies. always. i'm not angry god will forgive them. every sunday i go to church to pray for my children and for those who killed them. perhaps they want to be blamed perhaps they were just ordered to kill. you at least god will forgive them. sometimes you see a story. you think you understand it and then. you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is ok. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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teeth. they use it up there and wash their hands in it and flush their toilets with the same water that mr aris is selling and spraying water. that. i. feel i. should speak.

we have the situation someone had been shot the night before there was a heated discussion everyone was saying kill all georgians i said short time tell that to our engineers george and do we shoot him too with you know they said what's he got to do with it. you see there are different attitudes to georgians with. the new bodies they've lived with us all these years. in the cellars and started with us i think georgians are much closer to us than the a city and who got away. there were some georgians here

during the war hiding in the cellars i guess in your house a cellar yes there were seven of them we didn't hurt them we fed them first and then we ate. as they say don't kick a man while he's down. why not make friends. and it's only the politicians who wage wars not ordinary people. it's a sensitive question of course where afraid what guarantee is there that future georgian governments won't come for say. how many times have they massacred the. people three times that's why the international community should recognize selfless asia as an independent state that would give some protection. we are spared the boring now but it's still a comfortable. it would. be thought look yes our history was one of the

most beautiful in the seeding lots of girls as we had rows of everyone had roses we have been through so much i was born and raised on the street any one of us could have left straight away but we knew that our first duty was to defend our homeland and we did it by that's why nobody from always treat left. to really good grief this everyone who has lived in our city or for the last twenty years has loved to swim to the fire but based aid help to keep our country together you know at the heart of it of course is love for the law we're going to love for setting a love for the country regardless of nationality is obvious with your concern that . we used to live the local and not far from ten vol boom. but i missile hit our

house during the georgian war in one thousand nine hundred two if we had nowhere to live so we came here to this house was deserted. but we have lived here ever since. it's been twenty years now. yes my name is layla i must say. i've got five children. my grandchildren come to visit me this is my eldest grandson of eat he's eight. soon i'll have two more grandchildren. of course they help me with feeding the animals for example my mother eating chickens but giving the coals hey you will live on what we can grow ourselves. with we've got a cow and we sell cheese and potatoes we grow

a lot of potatoes yes and we make butter and sell me to. them it's hard living here a long winter lots of snow no roads. there was no electricity until a couple of months ago. there's no one who around there's one village but it's a long way away. we've got used to it. we live in s.a.t.'s and we love it everyone loves his homeland right. it's good there's no war but we were terrified when the fighting broke out the border was so close we heard the shooting. you can easily see georgian villages from here. of course we were afraid. it's peaceful here now.

for whatever a man considers to be a sacred place he should go there with a pure heart it's a sanctuary truth that you know if a man treats anywhere in the universe as though it was sacred then everywhere will become sacred to him up. to this was about you there are so many wonderful places here you can come here to rest or to enjoy or to pray you know for a book or movie. that was so cool it'll be better for you if you walk it's very high than two thousand meters. much to a clue. vishy people here believe that three pies is given as a tribute symbolizes the trinity. is the same with three candles on fire.

they sacrifice a lamb to on god's blessing. they want to experience the spirit of this place the power of the sanctuary. bad. the majority of us said he is now we are all christians. but the old and original the city and religion itself while i goes back to before christian times. holding the place where in now is a pretty christian sanctuary. and many of the holidays and celebrations we have today date back to way before christianity did but some of the old pagan knowledge is mystical. nature. and this knowledge is something that makes people stronger i believe that on more than one occasion of the one i escaped death thanks to my prayers at the tribal sanctuary. not once did i think that i wouldn't survive

but i came out of it completely untouched he said you go very few people came here between one hundred eighty nine and two thousand and eight one of the conflict with georgia got in the way it should be there was no opportunity for them to travel a long distance to come here. now that we've had peace into two thousand and eight places reviving and coming back to normal life it never stops it will go on. and. that lead to lord x. to make things better for us. we put ourselves in god's hands that's good if you're . i was born in a small a settee in village so i'm a native of this republic i graduated from the teaching university the physics and

mathematics department and i went on to work in a school. which since april twenty twelve i've been the president of the republic of south setia that was through the free will of our people. come on atlanta is next on the list well you know spent almost all my life in south setting. up so that's why i'm so familiar with all the problems of people who've lived through. the house finished. are you living somewhere else the roof still hasn't been finished. the roof not finished. so you could you make a measure that is. see if it's a cultural destruction that went on for several years our primary goal is to restore the damage and build new houses what. people need normal living conditions

what we. believe there should be but should have the chance to study. or to school go to a movie to the theater not that it will but to help the poor. to school they deserve the opportunity to spend their leisure time in the same way as anybody else in the twenty first century. they say i'm democratic. we must have an open society. yet you just briefings that don't make gold always grown to three pious and three compounds feel guests. i commend you all to go to almighty and let him always.

cleave come in. on mr de mille i'm so grateful to you. i'm very pleased to see that our people are so positive about building and. including our country's statehood. well you got some that's the most yeah i always like to keep in touch with the people. mr tibial of yesterday i wish you a very long life of coke asian and siberian good health. but please use your last term of office. to bring together the two a set is then you will go down in history as the man who united north and south assert within the borders of russia. and what's left for the president. this calls for a town. i'm

a down to earth man and i want to try to live my life amongst the people to live with dignity. but i decided i would live modestly with the same conditions as the people of our country. but the devil to know you. but i'm certainly not boasting but i do believe that on the mount of modest needs. i intend to stay this way until the end of my presidential term. we're celebrating the fifth anniversary of the end of the war the august war of two

thousand and eight as if we've been building a new state for the past five years five years of peace that's already reason for celebration which we can build houses and travel freely around the republic the roads are open and we're no longer afraid for chilled. and slights we know that they will grow up without gunfire without power being cut off or roads blogs they won't hear about friends and family being killed. here we didn't expect to live through five years of such peace and quiet. we hope it lasts forever locals look good.

i would rather ask questions for people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question more. well not told you my language at all but i will only react to situations i have read the

reports from so i'm like you know for the seriously no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point of the month to say that it's secure yet a car is on the docket else on. the radio no more weasel words. when you think you know direct question be prepared for a change when you throw a punch be ready for a battle freedom of speech means little down the freedoms of caution. play. live. live. live.

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