South Ossetia release of four detained Georgians

19.05.2011 17:46
South Ossetia, Georgia released the four citizens who were detained on the eve of the border area. This was reported on the website of the president of South Ossetia on post-conflict settlement.

The detainees were deported from South Ossetian territory and handed over to the Georgian side. The transfer took place in Georgian border villages Dhwani.

As previously reported, the young men were arrested the morning of 18 May, when gathered in a forest herbs used for cooking condiments. Georgian Interior Ministry on this issue stated that they were attacked by Russian troops (as the Ministry of Internal Affairs - "representatives of the occupation regime, dressed in military uniforms). According to the source, the military would delay collecting herbs and opened fire when they fled.

Two young men were wounded, they were taken to hospital.

KGB of South Ossetia, in turn, said that the citizens of Georgia violated the border and opened fire at border guards who were planning to detain them.

Themselves arrested, as reported IA "Res" and told that they had heard gunfire, but they were not firing at all and weapons with them were not. According to them, in Tskhinvali, where they were taken after the arrest, they were treated normally. Young people said they did not know where exactly the border, saw no warning signs or labels, so accidentally crossed into South Ossetia.

Georgia does not consider the border with South Ossetia, the official (inter-state), because it does not recognize South Ossetia as an independent state, and regarded it as Georgian territory under the "Russian occupation." From the Ossetian side of the border guard as local and Russian border guards (who are there in accordance with an agreement concluded between South Ossetia and Russia).