08.10.2008 21:20 | A Book-Album "South Ossetia. Chronicle of Contract Killings" Came Out

The book came out as a result of a joint project of the human rights movement «Resistance» and the Public Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes in South Ossetia and assistance to the affected civilian population.

At the time of the book's publishing, the deaths of 364 people killed in South Ossetia during the Georgian aggression on 7-12 of August 2008 were established and documented.

«The investigation of crimes and the identification of the killed individuals was complicated by the fact that relatives were forced to bury the dead in the courtyards of the houses, sprinkled land near roads and in ravines - where death found people. According to the Prosecutor’s office of RYUO, currently there are 1672 people dead and missing.

War crimes in South Ossetia once again prove that human rights can not be viewed through the prism of geographic and geopolitical conjunctions. Those responsible for the killings of civilians in South Ossetia should suffer just punishment. After all, the law is the rule, that does not yields to exclusion », - says in the book.

The publication of the book is dedicated to the 60-year anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The album used pictures of Alina Bestaeva, Lana Parastaeva (IA «Res»), Andrey Kochiev (newspaper «Republic»), Valery Melnikov ( «Kommersant»), etc.

The editors expressed their gratitude for the materials to the State Committee for Information and Press of RYUO, television channel Russia Today, the press service of the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations, Ministry of Internal Affairs of SOA-A, the team on documenting eyewitness accounts of military action «Tskhinval-2008».

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