South Ossetian FM: Russian citizens killed while State Duma contemplates issue
Georgian intelligence has declared a war against the peacekeepers, minister of interior of South Ossetia Mikhail Mindzayev stated to REGNUM correspondent while commenting on terrorist act of March 23 near the South Ossetian Okona village. He noted that peacekeepers Inal Koliyev and Vladislav Doguzov have become new victims of the “Georgian policy of state-sponsored terrorism.”
“As I have numerously stated, there is nothing the Georgian intelligence will stop at. The recent events in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone are a vivid evidence.”
“We have had an operative information that Georgian provocations in RSO would continue. We have been taken and we are taking preventing steps to prevent the deterioration of the situation. However, the outrages of the Georgian intelligence are unchecked. Today, they have declared war against the peacekeepers,” the minister stated.
“While the State Duma of the Russian Federation is adopting cautious statements with respect to South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Transdnestr, Russian citizens are being crippled and killed here. Only for the last three months, this is the sixth terrorist act already.”
“Of course, we are taking action in this regard, but it is pretty difficult to resist Georgia whose military budget is the largest in the Caucasus,” Mindzayev stressed. He informed that South Ossetian law enforcement agencies have been put on red alert with regard to the recent terrorist act.
On March 23, at about 11:30 Moscow time, a remotely-controlled land mine was detonated near the South Ossetian Okona village, heavily injuring two people.
16:30 03/24/2008
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