Foreword by A.Ch.Kasaev
Moscow, Europe Publishing House, 2006, pp 168
You are holding the «White book» of ethnic cleansing of the Ossetian people by Georgia. The conflict has been smoldering for a long time. In 1830, the Russian government made a clear verdict with regard to the matter: the Georgians do not have any rights to South Ossetia. Stalin, in his usual manner of laying down time bombs on borders between neighboring peoples, sacrificed the Ossetians in favor of the Georgian SSR. In 1938, the Ossetian alphabet was replaced with the Georgian script. Since 1949, the entire education in Ossetian schools, including primary school forms, was converted to Georgian. The attack on the language was followed by an attack on the people. In 1991, the skirmish between Gorbachev and Yeltsin kept Moscow unaware of what was going on in the South. There was no one to stop Zviad Gamsahurdia. According to the 1989 USSR population census, there were 164 thousand Ossetians living in Georgia. By the year 2002, only 38 thousand Ossetians remained there.
