Annually, on March 18, victims of the Ered tragedy – one of the most terrible and inhuman crimes in the recent history of Ossetia, are commemorated in South Ossetia.
On March 18, 1991 Georgian neo-nazies seized an Ural car and disembarked 25 Ossetians, who were driving through the territory, which at that time was controlled by Georgian armed formations. Women and children were released, but 12 men after horrific tortures were buried alive, and the place of burial was leveled with a bulldozer.