North-Ossetian reporter: Information blockade needs to be broken to let the world know the truth on what happened in South Ossetia

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Residents of the South Ossetian settlement Satikari suffered as a result of the Georgian aggression. Houses are destroyed in the settlement, women, old men and children were killed, Tengiz Doguzov, a journalist from North Ossetia originated from Satikari, told a REGNUM correspondent on September, 11.

“On August 9, 2008, the Georgian troops occupied my native village Satikari. Children, women and old men were forced to seek shelter in the forest. The Georgian aggressors opened massed fire on all escaping residents. My brother Leonid was killed while protecting them, Georgian soldiers slashed his body by submachine gun burst. Friends buried my brother in my parents’ vegetable garden in Satikari. Ten days later, he has been reinterred at the family cemetery. The house where my parents and brother with his family lived was strongly damaged during the massed fire. All houses were destroyed in the village. My parents took ill after the death of my brother, they have strong mental distress,” said Tengiz Doguzov.

“Today it hurts to see that many American and western mass media cover the tragic events in South Ossetia in a very biased and one-sided way. It hurt me when they kept silent when the Georgian military barbarously shot civilians and crashed our children, women and old men by tanks. And when Russia offered rebuff to the armed aggressor and started an operation on peace enforcement of Georgia, the western and American mass media raised a big smoke all over the world: Russia, they say, attacked a small democratic Georgia. What a lie! What hypocrisy! The western and American mass media were writing that the Russian Federation allegedly bombed Tskhinval,” said the reporter.

According to Tengiz Doguzov, the task of all honest journalists is to breach the information blockade arranged by supporters of the Georgian president, to make the world know the truth about real events in South Ossetia.

“On behalf of all suffered residents of South Ossetia I would like to sincerely thank the representatives of Ossetian national cultural centers and societies which helped to breach the information blockade and played an enormous role herein, reporting the objective information to their countries. I would like  also to sincerely thank my colleagues — Russian journalists, which conducted big, difficult and even titanic work in order to collect information and documents proving the genocide and extermination of Ossetians took place,” added the reporter suffering from the Georgian aggression.