Gori

Interview place, time and date: #89 Public School, Tbilisi
Respodent:woman,34 years
Story code:0034
I left my home on 12th of August at 1:00 AM with my wife and children. We had to run away, because Russian and Ossetian soldiers were coming our way with artillery.
On 7th of August I sheltered an Ossetian refugee from Tskhinvali with her two children. Her name is Marine. We found a shelter in the neighbor's cave when Russians were bombing Gori. In order to be safe we left Gori and went to a little village called Tortiza, but a terrible thing happened: 8 bombs were dropped on this little old village. Of these, 3 exploded, five are still to be detonated. I saw the worst thing in life that night; I saw how residents of the village collected parts of their neighbor's body and buried them in the nearby valley. My cousin's child died the same time. There are other wounded and dead people as a result of that bombing. My daughter and niece – Lana Flishvili and Izabela Berdzenishvili – fortunately survived, but they were in the place where one of the bombs exploded and they have minor injuries. Our house is damaged as well.
There are several people left in our house in Gori: my blind grandmother, Ossetian refugee with her two children and a resident of Tkviavi Ms. Roza Oqruashvili, who is wounded in the belly area. Bomb was dropped in her yard, what resulted in destruction of her house and her being wounded.