well 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 called under fire 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 rockets that left a huge hole in the building we ran through the hole and saw george and ahmed car outside. i crawled in and took a machine gun we carried machine guns with us when we went on coles.

course we were on duty for twenty four hours mostly man of course but the worst some women feel matters too. and we should move on the seventh we decided to get some rest and i left my deputy in my place the regular shift and driver on judy i went home because i'm not going to be well up and it gives me well this is just a ceasefire well what are some i suggest immediate negotiations was i confirmed what i said three years ago to grow. unlimited autonomy and so much to look at something. he's got and if you're georgian television was broadcasting saakashvili as message about this peace initiative literally every thirty minutes everyone involved believed him 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 in on maybe they won't do anything you will 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 one of the eve of the eighth of august the minister of defense sent him to oversee the southern border and provide coordinates here watch them approaching the border he's so how many vehicles they had knew what was coming

. down he was wounded in the chest why a shell 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 for here we came out to find georgian democracy in our streets. for bush and bush played the felt almost like a computer game that was the impression from the book that it wouldn't go to the course when i 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 soldiers with the city's electricity had been cut off for the substation to be blown up the night before the road 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 this

was there was a bathroom we have water and course no one wanted to eat because of nervous tension i lost five kilograms of wood you know. injured 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 is why. we had put our wishes off for the future we told ourselves that in time russia would recognize our state maybe even the us would eventually do the same. of others and then we 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 at the ball now we can live freely as 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. 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 too she never knew that her daughter had died. sooner were my son was seven. my daughter was meant team my son was sixteen.

were born here he didn't get. a new he was still in the city and tanks were going in his direction where our movie fired point blank at his car a shell blew up he had a lot or he just flew into the. street. it all happened there. they were shooting me 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 were they doing there were children inside not fighters where we. could be flown we were killed instantly real desert i looked and saw that they had fallen and. i didn't know what to do. the infantry followed the tanks or they 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. i don't know. perhaps if i hadn'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 sela those knew i couldn't see how i could go on living and i still not know. she was pregnant at the time. in two thousand and nine she gave birth to a baby. my grandson when 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. with film i didn't care. i didn't even want to know what would happen to him in fifteen years would he be killed too. rather startled i live for my grandson. he's the only joy in my life this truth i have no wish for a better life force be i just want to bring up my grandson for as long as i can do nothing else interests me of like a living coax will. i believe in god. he gave me my son. 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 the potatoes he looks at the seeds and cuts away the bad ones in the autumn he gets a good harvest. the farmer destroys the beautiful but useless seeds. and criminals live longer than good people. the religious man replied. god does the same thing. he takes the good seeds when he doesn't want the bad ones. were. done not in the body i sell wooden spoons and x. show here in the market. to move your. the weekend people are taking a rest they allowed to come here and look around. the room i like to talk to people . who takes my mind off my grief but i'm tired very much money.

most of you know what i thought. they can't live without me there really needed me here from so how can they cope now on their own. through you know 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. it's just. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

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good live. and a. lot of a little. while ago but as you go through we had the situation someone had been shot the night before there was a heated discussion everyone was saying kill all georgians i said showtime tell it

to me and say our engineer is george and do we shoot him to my feet and they said what's he got to do with it and. the picture you see there are different attitudes to georgians with with the green. they've lived with us all these years. in the cellars and started with us i think georgians are much closer to us. who got away. that there were some georgians here during the war hiding in the cellars oh yes in your houses 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 but 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 they do national community should recognise self a state here as an independent state that would give some protection. we are spared the blooming now but it's still a comfortable. it. was one of the most beautiful in this lots of grows 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 but that's why nobody from always treat left. to. these everyone who has lived said here for the last twenty years has loved.

the fact that they stayed helped keep our country together you know the heart of it of course is love for the lamp love for setting love for the come. traver regardless of nationality is a risk with your concern mr. we used to live there are local and not far from san vall. 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. from what 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. in my grandchildren come to visit me this is my eldest grandson does he eat he's eight

. soon i'll have two more grandchildren. though of course they help me with feeding the animals for example mama feeding chickens or 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 too. and it's hard living here a long winter lots of snow no roads here there was no electricity until a couple of months ago. there's no one 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 to her the shooting. you can easily see two. from here. of course. it's peaceful here now. so please whatever a man considers to be a sacred place he should go there with a pure heart it's a sanctuary. if a man treats anywhere in the universe as though it was sacred then everywhere will become sacred to him.

this was about you there are so many wonderful places you can come here to rest to enjoy and to pray for. it will be better for you if you walk very high than two thousand meters. 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. and bad. effect on the majority of a city and now we're all christians. but the old and original a city and religion itself well that goes back to before christian times you know holding a place where in now is a pre-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. and this knowledge is something that makes people stronger i believe that on more than one occasion of the 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 if you go to very few people came here between one hundred eighty nine and two thousand and one of the conflict with georgia got in the way before there was no opportunity for them to travel the long distance to come here. now that we've had peace in two thousand and eight the place is reviving and coming back to normal life goes on it never stops it will go on. that lead the lord to actually 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 setian village so i'm a native of this republic i graduated from the teaching universe team the physics and mathematics department and i went on to work in a school. but since april twenty eighth well i've been the president of the republic of south ossetia that was through the free will of our people. must come in atlanta who's next on the list. but will now spend almost all my life in south setting. up so that's why i'm so familiar with all the problems our people have lived through. is the house finished. goods are you

living somewhere else the roof still hasn't been finished. and the roof not finished. so you could you make an issue that is. if you alter all the destruction that went on for several years our primary goal is to restore the damage and build new houses what. should people need normal living conditions what we. believe there should be should have a chance to study. or to school go to a movie to the theater. but the health of. all good movie deserve the opportunity to spend their leisure time in the same way as anybody else in the twenty first century.

when they say i am democratic. we must have an open society. yet you just move greetings from may god always. drawn to three poise and three compounds feel guests. i commend you all to go to almighty i'm less him always. please come in. come on mr jamila i'm so grateful to you. i'm very pleased to see that our people are so positive about building and strengthening our country statehood. while you go from that's the most i always like to keep in touch with the people. of. misrata bill of. course 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 a city 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 most you know you. i'm certainly not boasting but i do believe that i'm

a man of modest needs. i intend to stay this way until the end of my presidential term well. we're celebrating the face on the first three of the end of the war the oldest war of two thousand and eight as if we've been building a new state for the past five years or produced five years of peace that's already reason for celebration which is back with us as we can build houses and travel freely around the republic the roads are open and we're no longer afraid for children's lives and 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 . because we didn't expect to live through five years of such peace and quiet.

we hope it lasts forever little slippage. told him a language of all but i will only react to situations i have read the reports so i'm not in a position to know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point i come on to say. mr k.l.a. car is on the docket no god. no more weasel words when you vain a direct question be prepared for a change when you have to. be ready for a. freedom of speech and a little down to freedom to cast. led

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