Word: tskhinvali
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Minzayev said the army is still finding bodies in basements - sometimes just bones because of fires. An estimated 95% of the buildings in Tskhinvali have suffered fire damage as a result of war and looting. The only houses that haven't been burned are the ones that were still under construction and didn't contain anything valuable to steal. "People are burying their dead in the courtyard of their homes and in their clan cemeteries in the mountains," Minzayev says. Priests at Mary Mother of God church, a South Ossetian congregation in Tskhinvali, said they had carried out more than...
Even as Russian tanks began their desultory withdrawal from Georgia on Tuesday, dozens of houses were still burning in Georgian villages north of Tskhinvali, the capital of the Georgian breakaway republic of South Ossetia. Many Ossetians appear keen to assure that the displacement of ethnic Georgians from the region becomes permanent...
...course of the past two weeks, more than 90% of the houses in these villages, which lie in the broad, fir-covered mountain valley running up from Tskhinvali to the Russian border, have been looted and burnt. Looters from as far away as Chechnya and Abkhazia were seen hauling away TVs, refrigerators and other household appliances on the back of tractors and in the overloaded trunks of new cars - many of them stolen from the villages, according to local accounts...
...backhoe's work could be seen along a six-mile (10 km) stretch of the road from Tskhinvali to the Russian border. Gates and fences had been smashed down and piping bent into a crazy...
...While Russian troops control checkpoints around the edge of Tskhinvali, locals and men from North Ossetia are now making a concerted effort to raze the Georgian areas just north of the town...