Annually, on March 18, victims of the Ered tragedy – another confirmation of the policy of genocide, pursed by the leadership of Georgia against the Ossetian nation over a century, are commemorated in South Ossetia.
On March 18, 1991, near the village of Ered, Georgian neo-nazies seized a Ural car with 25 Ossetian civilians. After the beatings, the women and children were released, but 12 men were brutally tortured, buried alive, and the ground was leveled with a bulldozer, hiding the crime scene. It took two and a half years to find the burial site and identify the dead, during which the relatives of the horrifically tortured went through all the circles of hell. No one could fully believe the horror of what had happened.
This bloody and inhuman crime, committed 35 years ago, still shocks with its extreme cruelty and cynicism, remaining an open wound in the historical memory of the Ossetian people.
According to the tradition, a commemorative rally and a flower-laying ceremony were held on this day at the mass grave of the innocently murdered at the cemetery in Tskhinval.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia A. M. Dzhioev and employees of the Ministry attended the commemorative event.
Conifers, as the symbol of peace and memory of the fallen, were planted at the site of the tragedy in the village of Irykau (Ered), where a memorial complex to the victims of the Ered tragedy will be erected.
18 March 2026