08 August 2009, 18:00

Museum of genocide opens in South Ossetia capital

A museum of genocide opened in Tskhenval today. Its exhibits include photographs of victims in August 2008, pictures of the war, fragments of exploded shells.

The museum building itself is a kind of an exhibit. The building of the multi-storey house was burnt in the exact center of Tskhinval. The pictures and photographs are hanging over the charred walls in the open air, reports ITAR-ТАSS.

Meanwhile, a decision to open a museum of the Russian aggression in Gori, Georgia, was made upon the results of the last-year war. In October 2008, the Georgian authorities passed a decision to relocate there the monument of Josef Stalin, which now  stands in the center of Gori.

Today, the monument to Josef Stalin was encircled by a symbolic "Berlin Wall", within the framework of events to commemorate the August 2008 crisis in the Caucasus.

The organizers of the action (non-government organizations) placed one-meter photographs featuring the last-year war on a 150 meter wall, reports "Interfax" agency.

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