Creeping occupation: New barbed-wire fences erected
The Georgian State Security Service confirmed the erection of illegal barbed wire fences. Photo:N.Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Russia-controlled border guards and the leadership of Georgian eastern occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region are erecting barbed wire fences at the village of Balta, in the Kareli district of Georgia.
The de-facto leadership of Tskhinvali says that a one-kilometer-long barrier has already been made.
“The majority of people living in the occupied territories and who are hindered by the barbed wire fences built by the occupation regime are ethnic Ossetians that are not allowed to move about freely. This is another revelation as to how insignificant humans and their rights are to the occupation forces – how they do not care about their ethnicity be it Georgian, Abkhaz or Ossetian. The regime has one interest – military – and they believe it is in their strategic interest to increase tensions in the pre-election period to put more pressure on the population. Russia is not going to achieve any results with these provocations and we have reacted properly to this case”, State Minister for Reconciliation and Civil Equality of Georgia, Ketevan Tsikhelashvili said.
The Georgian State Security Service confirms the erection of the fence and states that the hot line has been activated regarding the issue and the European Union Monitoring Mission has been informed.
The State Security Service says that the illegal erection of barbed wire fences restricts the free movement of locals and causes tension on the ground.
The total length of barbed wire fences illegally erected by Russian occupational troops on Georgian soil is 63km, as of today. All cases of human rights violation in Georgia’s occupied regions were collated into one document for the global community to review.
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The Georgian Foreign Ministry has condemned the erection of new illegal barbed wire fences at the villages of Atotsi and Balta of the Kareli municipality, near the country’s occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region in the eastern part of Georgia.
Georgian Minister of Reconciliation and Civil Equality Ketevan Tsikhelashvili has come to the Atotsi village of Kareli municipality today, where occupants are erecting new barbed wire fences and stated that through this step, Russia is isolating the Tskhinvali region from the outside world and is creating “unbearable” conditions for ethnic Ossetians.
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has stated that the government will not tolerate neither old nor new barbed wire fences on its historic land, responding to the erection of new barbed wire fences by occupants at the village of Atotsi near the occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.
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