Georgian man claims violence by Ossetian gunmen in Sth Ossetia скачать в хорошем качестве

Georgian man claims violence by Ossetian gunmen in Sth Ossetia

(14 Sep 2008) SHOTLIST 1. Wide of internal displacement camp in Gori 2. Internally displaced children standing outside of tents 3. Internally displaced persons outside tents 4. SOUNDBITE: (Georgian) Alyosha Beguluri, Georgian Villager: "The day before yesterday at nine in the evening, two of us were forcibly taken from my house and we were joined by three other villagers, so five of us were taken to the outskirts of the village." 5. Cutaway of Beguluri being interviewed 6. SOUNDBITE: (Georgian) Alyosha Beguluri, Georgian Villager: "They ordered us to lay face-down. They were beating us with rifle butts, assaulting us and saying you were on our land and cursing us. They were beating us again because we weren't lying on the ground they way they wanted us to be. And then they poured kerosene on us. I thought they were going to burn me." 7. Cutaway of Beguluri being interviewed 8. SOUNDBITE: (Georgian) Alyosha Beguluri, Georgian Villager: "They ordered us to raise our heads off of the ground and then to get up and run away. But I was afraid to run because I thought they would shoot us if we ran away. But we each ran away. We were so frightened we scattered and were no longer all together. Two of us hid in a vineyard and I still don't know what happened to the others." 9. Cutaway of villagers 10. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Alyosha Beguluri, Georgian Villager: "All of these guys were carrying machine guns. They were all Ossetians. None of them were Russians." 11. Cutaway camp 12. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Alyosha Beguluri, Georgian Villager: "They were threatening us that our village would be burned like the village of Disevi and they were saying that people of my nationality should no longer remain here." 13. Close of UNHCR (UN High Commission for Refugees) logo on tent STORYLINE: An ethnic Georgian man from South Ossetia accused Ossetian gunmen on Sunday of ethnic intimidation, saying they forced him and four other men to the ground and doused them with kerosene before letting them go with a chilling warning. The allegation could not immediately be independently verified, and South Ossetia's separatist government vehemently denied it. Russian soldiers are expected to withdraw in the coming weeks from the areas surrounding South Ossetia and another breakaway region, Abkhazia, that have been under Russian control since last month's war. Alyosha Beguluri, who brought his family to the central city of Gori from their mostly ethnic Georgian village in South Ossetia after the war, said he had returned to the village, Koshki, on Friday to check on his home. After dark, Beguluri said, five or six camouflage-clad Ossetians with Kalashnikovs came into his yard and took him away, along with four other ethnic Georgians. He said the Ossetians beat them with their rifle butts and kicked them while leading them to a deserted area. "They were beating us again because we weren't lying on the ground they way they wanted us to be. And then they poured kerosene on us. I thought they were going to burn me" he claimed. He said the gunmen told them their village would be torched and the remaining ethnic Georgians driven away or worse. But after keeping them on the ground at gunpoint for 10 or 15 minutes, cursing them, Beguluri said the gunmen told them to stand up one by one and run away. "They ordered us to raise our heads off of the ground and then to get up and run away. But I was afraid to run because I thought they would shoot us if we ran away. But we each ran away. We were so frightened we scattered and were no longer all together" he told AP Television. President Nicolas Sarkozy. 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...