Today I encourage you to read the findings of independent international fact-finding mission in Georgia or also known as Tagliviani report.

It adds later: "There is the question of whether (this] use of force... was justifiable under international law. It was not."

Tagliavini said: "None of the explanations given by the Georgian authorities in order to provide some form of legal justification for the attack lend it a valid explanation."

Today is the 17th anniversary of another Georgian aggression in South Ossetia. This is how Tskhinval looked like after Georgian non-stop shelling next morning. Phone cameras were no good back then, but you can still see the scale of bombing a small town of 30K population endured

One thing I understand clearly now is that if Georgia prevailed and cleansed the territory of Ossetia the way it wanted, nobody would've said a word. People in Ossetia used to wonder why would "the world" let Georgia kill Ossets and support aggressors against victims.

The ultimate truth is that "the world" never cared and never will. There is no justice and no truth in human institutions, structures and relations. 17 years later, nothing really changed in Georgian attitude either, it is the same racist narrative against Ossets and Abkhaz.

I am a witness of three Georgian attempts to destroy South Ossetia, and I am not even 40. My family and my clan Dzhusoitæ lost at least six people, all of them killed by Georgians, two of them were children. Ruxsag ud, næ xotæ æmæ 'fsymærtæ. God is always great.

We're so deep into the post-truth era, you'd think we should be coming out the other end soon

At 11:35 PM on August 7, 2008, the attack on the sleeping city of Tskhinval began. The Georgian authorities had ultimately decided to launch Operation “Clean Field” — a campaign aimed at the final solution of the Ossetian question on the southern slope of the Caucasus.

This is an outright lie and requires a Community Notes The European Union's Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia, concluded that Georgia initiated the large-scale armed conflict by launching a military offensive against Tskhinvali, during

South Ossetia declared independence from the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) on September 20, 1990, as the South Ossetian Soviet Democratic Republic, amid escalating ethnic tensions and in the context of the Soviet Union's impending dissolution. Subsequent steps included

Audiatur et altera pars. The thing no one in the West, with the exception of earnest if obscure anthropologists and peace activists, has ever done when it comes to South Ossetia.

As every year, flowers were laid at the grave of Aslan Aguzarov, a volunteer from North Ossetia who fought and died for South Ossetia. Ruxsag u, Iry qajtar

Every year, we come to the grave of Aslan Aguzarov, a hero of the Ossetian people who gave his life defending Tskhinval. Every year, through him, we honor the memory of all Ossetian heroes. If the deeds of these young men are ever forgotten, it will mark the beginning of the end

#SouthOssetia 08.08.08 in memory of the innocent citizens of South Ossetia killed by Saakashvili's decision.

A memorial service was conducted and a mourning gathering took place in North Ossetia's Dzæwdžyqæw/Vladikavkaz, honouring the victims of the 2008 aggression of Georgia against Ossetia.