Karaleti

Interview place, time and date: School N.130, Tbilisi, 16.08.08.
Interviewer organization: Public Defender's Office
Respondent:woman, 41 years
Story code:0048I live in village Karaleti, Gori region. Russian army entered the village Karaleti on 11-12 August. They brought Ossetians and Kazaks. They took cars from us; one person-Alika didn't give his car, he resisted and he was killed. Then Russians started marauding. 4 boys were sitting in the center of the village, Russians fired them. They were under Influence of Alcohol or Drugs-robbed houses and then burnt everything.
I and wife of my brother-in-law were hiding in the kindergartens for 2 days, and then we walked 40 km. when we came to the family of Datviashvili Tamila, Ossetians saw us, ran to the house and started to fire. They stormed into the house and started to search for us. They threatened Tamila Datviashvili's mother with a gun to find out where we were. We managed to run away and walked to Akhalsopeli in the midnight. We headed to Tbilisi from Akhalsopeli with out spouses. I don't know where my children are as they went from the village a day earlier.