Today, on June 20, commemorative events dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Ossetian Genocide, organized by the Georgian leadership in the summer of 1920, are being held in South Ossetia.
The bloody punitive operation of the Georgian regular army in the middle of 1920 led to the death of thousands of civilians, both at the hands of the Georgian military, as well as from hunger, cold and disease while crossing the passes of the Greater Caucasus to the north of Ossetia. About 50 thousand people lost their homes and property and were forced to leave South Ossetia to save their lives.
A third of the Ossetian population of South Ossetia died at the hands of Georgian raiders, and hundreds of villages were burned to the ground.
Employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia took part in a flower-laying ceremony at the Memorial Monument to 13 Ossetian Communards shot by Georgian Mensheviks on the Zguder Hill on June 20, 1920.
A nationwide minute of silence was observed throughout the Republic at 1:00 p.m. Memorial services for the victims of the genocide of the Ossetian people will be held in churches of Tskhinval.