06.11.2008 14:40 | They hurried to help hostages

The Tadtaev`s family – husband and wife Raisa and Meliton, which live on October Street, 139, suffered a hard loss. One of their two sons - the junior 22-year-old Victor, the employee of the Ministry of Defense of South Ossetia, died as a hero, trying to help hostages.

On August, 9 when the Georgian bands entered Tskhinval again, the fierce fights began in the district of school №12. The tens of Georgian bloodsuckers have located in one part of the two-storied inhabited building, which tenants were hiding in the shared basement. Some more Georgian snipers were situated comfortably at school №12. “When they found out that we were hidden in a cellar, about 15 armed to the teeth Georgians came to us and demanded from us to leave a cellar with the hands in the air. Several other Georgians had been in our houses, - Helen Kachmazova, one of the residents of the house, occupied by Georgians, says. – There were about 8 people in the cellar; four of them were men in pension and a prepension age. I came out to them together with the other woman. We began to plead with them in Georgian language not to kill us. They said that soon the car would come to fetch us to Georgia. At that time one our neighbor Vilen Chibirov was coming home, when he saw Georgians in his house it was too late, they shot him at point-blank range before our eyes. Then our civil guardsmen hurried to help us and began to fight with them.

The Georgians, who have called us from a cellar, took cover in the house too and therefrom were shooting, and we rushed to a cellar again. We were not afraid for ourselves any more, we were afraid for our children; there was my son also among them. All the time we prayed for them.

Victor Tadtaev and his friend Vladik Gazzayev were the first who have ran to help us. They, probably, did not expect that there would be so many Georgians in the house. When they ran in a court yard, they had no time jet to take cover somewhere and shoot from a shelter. They fighted as the heroes, but were killed.

When other civil guardsmen began to attack actively uninvited visitors, the tanks arrived to help Georgians, but our not numerous guys managed to throw them out of the district and from the city. Our fighters managed to liquidate the snipers, which shot at live targets from a school building.

As the neighbors say, Vilen Chibirov was about 34 years old. He is buried in Northern Ossetia. Vilen had a family. Georgians left his seven-year-old son and newborn daughter without the father. During the war Vilen`s wife and children were in Vladikavkaz.

As mother of Victor Tadtaev said, her son was going to celebrate a wedding this autumn. “He was so happy, joyful, wanted to marry even this summer, but the situation around the republic became more and more heated and I asked him to wait a little, while the situation will stabilize. It was decided to celebrate wedding in the autumn. If we knew how this would all turnout…”, - Raisa Tadtaeva says, crying. Victor was buried in a court yard of the fifth school.

Vladik Gazzayev lived in the district of Shanghai. As his friend say he was about 35-year-old. Vladik had great authority among his friends.

Sergey Gazzaev

(On photo: Viktor Tadtaev)

Translated by Tatiana Inozemtseva