Marauders attacked houses of South Ossetia’s residents after shelling attacks of Georgian troops.
Photo: Valery Melnikov
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South Ossetia at War with Marauders
A new battle has been launched in South Ossetia, this time against the marauders. The authorities announced two pillagers were shot in Java and promised the same fate to anyone attempting to grab possessions of others.
“The people feared shelling at first, now they are scared of marauders,” said South Ossetia’s Security Council Secretary Anatoly Barankevich. “We will suppress it mercilessly.”
The extent of suppression became clear yesterday, when the curfew of 7:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. was imposed on Tskhinvali and armed people were banned from appearing in the streets. What’s more, two marauders were shot down in Java yesterday. “By laws of wartime, pillage is punished by execution,” said an enforcement officer of South Ossetia.
All attempts to learn names of executed marauders have been to no avail. The officials in South Ossetia and North Ossetia appeared completely unaware of it and representatives in South Ossetia’s Interior Ministry supposed at first “the information was spread for preventive purpose.”
But it was hardly the prevention. Pillagers were killed when they opposed detention, South Ossetia’s Interior Minister Mikhail Mindzaev said latter.
Pillage is a real problem in today’s South Ossetia. By shooting the marauders, the authorities attempt to contain the panic of locals and refugees rushing back to their houses. The bad news is that this effort against the pillagers could be used as pretext for killing those who disagree with today's leadership of the breakaway republic of Georgia.
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All the Article in Russian as of Aug. 15, 2008
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