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Villagers displaced by fighting end up in Gori

(26 Aug 2008) 1. Wide of damaged housing block with men clearing up broken glass from windows and other debris in front of it 2. Various of debris being cleared 3. Wide of damaged housing block with men clearing out damaged property from homes 4. Various of house clearing 5. Wide of elderly woman walking down damaged street 6. Various of burned out vans in street 7. Wide of displaced people from the village of Meghvrekisi congregating in the centre of Gori 8. Mid of displaced people 9. Two women sitting crying 10. SOUNDBITE: (Georgian) Meghvrekisi villager, no name available: "The Russians have taken our land, we do not want Americans either, we want our homes back." 11. Mid of three women sitting crying 12. SOUNDBITE: (Georgian) Natela Makhatadze,Meghvrekisi villager: "We fled from our homes, only those of us who could hide yesterday are safe now, others were beaten up. We are around one hundred here, elderly people who cannot walk remain in the village." 13. Close up of belongings 14. People sitting alongside belongings 15. Wide of group of displaced people STORYLINE: Around a hundred Georgian villagers who fled their homes near the breakaway region South Ossetia after the brief war between Russia and Georgia, sought refuge in the city of Gori on Tuesday. The villagers from Meghvrekisi, seven kilometres (4.34 miles) from the South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali, say they had no choice but to flee as they continue to be looted and threatened by ethnic Ossetians. Natela Makhatadze, a Meghvrekisi villager, explained why they had fled their homes. "Only those of us who could hide yesterday are safe now, others were beaten up. We are around one hundred here, elderly people who cannot walk remain in the village," she told AP Television news. Another woman said all she wanted was to go home. "The Russians have taken our land, we do not want Americans either, we want our homes back," she said crying. Gori, itself the scene of fighting, was in the midst of a clean up in some of the city's badly damaged neighbourhoods. Hundreds of residents who had fled to camps near Tblilisi during the conflict returned back to Gori over the weekend. On Monday afternoon Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili held a Cabinet meeting in Gori in a symbolic demonstration that the strategic central city is back under Georgian control. Hostilities started when Georgian forces launched an assault on August 7 in the separatist region of South Ossetia, and Russian forces went in, sparking the war and an international crisis. Five days of fighting damaged cities and towns across the country and displaced tens of thousands of people. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...