My name is Luka Adikashvili, I own a double citizenship – Georgian and French. I am a student in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia.
Three days ago, Georgian armed forces started an operation aiming to regain control on it’s revolted region – South Ossetia. I must admit that the names “South Ossetia” and “North Ossetia (a part of Russia)” have been artificially created during the soviet years. There has NEVER been, in the world’s history, an Ossetian Republic.
At first, Georgian troops took Tshkinvali – the capital of South Ossetian region. On August 8, 2008, Russian aircrafts started to bombard Georgia, even towns on about 200 kilometers from the battle front. Georgia is about 500 kilometers long and South Ossetia is in the middle of it. My country was getting bombarded all around it’s territory. In Gori, the biggest town near South Ossetia, living buildings were bombarded. During the last night, 300 Russian tanks and about 10 000 of their soldiers stormed across the Georgian border and opened fire on Tskhinvali. which was at that time controlled by Georgian forces. Tskhinvali was under bombardment of Russian air forces during the whole night. As a result, the Georgian troops had to leave the town. All this reminds me oh how Russian army conquered us in 1921.
Georgia is one of oldest countries in the world and it has nothing to with Russia. The name Georgia in Georgian is “Saqartvelo”. The name “Saqartvelo” comes from the name of the central part of Georgia – Qartli (Containing two parts: Inner Qartli and Lower Qartli). South Ossetia in Georgian is Inner Qartli itself. Shida Qartli (or South Ossetia) has never been a part of Russia and South Ossetia has never been independent. There can be no discussion of Russian ownership of South Ossetia.
People, please protest as firm as you can. Let’s tame the nuclear bear together before there is one less country in the world!
Photo 1 : 2008/8/9 , Town of Gori
Photo 2 : 2008/8/9 , Our town is burning
Photo 3 : 2008/8/9 , Our army
Photo 4 : 2008/8/9 , Russia Invasion
Photo 5 : Russia Attack
