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20-477: (Redirected from South Ossetia War ) The term war in South Ossetia may refer to: Georgian–Ossetian conflict (1918–1920) 1991–1992 South Ossetia War 2008 Russo-Georgian War See also [ edit ] Georgian–Ossetian conflict Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

40-698: A breakaway republic of Georgia . The road is manned at the town of Nizhny Zaramag  [ ru ] in North Ossetia and is sometimes referred to as the Roki-Nizhny Zaramag border crossing. The tunnel, completed by the Soviet government in 1984, is one of only a handful of routes that cross the North Caucasus Range. It is at about 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) altitude and its length is 3,730 metres (12,240 ft), and near

60-667: The Georgian–Ossetian conflict . The South Ossetian authorities use tolls levied on tunnel traffic as one of their main sources of revenue. The Georgian government, backed by the United States , has long called for the South Ossetian side of the tunnel to be placed under the control of international monitors, rather than by the South Ossetian secessionists and their Russian allies. When the Russian authorities blocked

80-707: The Roki Pass at about 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) altitude, which can only be used in summer. The other routes between Georgia and Russia include the Kazbegi – Verkhni Lars customs checkpoint on the Georgian Military Road , closed June 2006  and reopened 2010, and the Gantiadi – Adler crossing in Abkhazia which Georgia asserts functions illegally. The tunnel has been important throughout

100-791: The Treaty of Moscow of 7 May 1920, Soviet Russia demanded Georgia recall its troops from Ossetia. On May 8, the Ossetians declared a Soviet republic in the Roki area on the Russian-Georgian border. A Bolshevik force from Vladikavkaz crossed into Georgia and helped the local rebels to attack a Georgian force in the Java district. The rebellious areas were effectively incorporated into Soviet Russia. However, Vladimir Lenin's desire to keep peace with Georgia at that time and eventual military failures of

120-564: The advancing Red Army which brought Georgia's independence to an end. In April 1922, newly established Soviet Georgian government rewarded the Ossetian service with the establishment of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast which included not only Ossetian and mixed Georgian-Ossetian, but also purely Georgian villages and had Tskhinvali, where the Ossetians were in minority at that time, as its capital. Despite

140-648: The Bolsheviks’ role in the events. Roki Tunnel The Roki Tunnel (also called Roksky Tunnel , Georgian : როკის გვირაბი ; Ossetian : Ручъы тъунел ; Russian : Рокский туннель ) is a mountain tunnel of the Transkam road through the Greater Caucasus Mountains, north of the village Upper Roka. It is the only road joining North Ossetia–Alania in Russia into South Ossetia ,

160-470: The Georgian actions of 1918–1920 and 1989–1992 as a genocide under the 1948 convention . Georgia deny the accusations and consider the figures exaggerated. While not denying the brutality of the fighting, it views the conflict as the first attempt by Russia to destabilise Georgia by encouraging South Ossetia to secede and explain the severity of Georgian reaction by the Ossetian pillage of Tskhinvali and

180-601: The Menshevik government of Georgia came across significant problems with ethnic Ossetians who largely sympathized with the Bolsheviks and Soviet Russia . The reasons behind the conflict were complicated. An overdue land reform and agrarian disturbances in the poor Ossetian-populated areas intermingled with an ethnic discord and the struggle for power in the Caucasus . After the 1917 February Revolution that resulted in

200-539: The Ossetians. Valiko Jugheli spoke about the Ossetians saying, "Our worst and most relentless enemies" and, "These traitors should be cruelly punished. There is no other way." In October 1919, revolts against the Mensheviks broke out again in several areas. On 23 October, rebels in the Roki area proclaimed the establishment of Soviet power and began advancing toward Tskhinvali, but suffered defeat and retreated to

220-735: The Soviet-controlled Terek district. The year 1919 also saw a series of fruitless discussions concerning the status and governance of the region. Ossetians demanded a degree of autonomy comparable with the one granted to the Abkhazians and Muslim Georgians in Adjara . However, no final decision was made, and the Georgian government outlawed the National Council of South Ossetia, a Bolshevik-dominated body, and refused any grant of autonomy. Bolsheviks fully exploited

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240-704: The abdication of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia , the Ossetians set up a National Council of Ossetians which convened in Java in June 1917 and advocated the creation of organs of self-rule in Ossetian-inhabited areas on both sides of the Caucasus. The Council was internally divided along the ideological lines and soon became dominated by the Bolsheviks who called for the unification of North and South Ossetias and

260-446: The bloody conflict and painful memories left by it, relations between Georgians and Ossetians remained peaceful throughout the Soviet period in contrast to Georgia's other ethnic troublespot, Abkhazia , where ethnic discord was much more profound and potentially inflammable. With the rising of ethnic tensions in South Ossetia in the late 1980s, the 1918–1920 thematic surfaced again, with conflicting narratives and interpretations of

280-514: The conflict. The South Ossetians consider those events as part of their struggle for self-determination and claim that the Georgian reaction to the uprisings was genocide . The depopulated Ossetian villages were allegedly occupied by their Georgian neighbors from the Dusheti and K'azbegi districts. On 2 November 2006, the People's Assembly of Abkhazia unanimously passed a resolution recognizing

300-417: The following breakdown of casualties: 387 men, 172 women, and 110 children were killed in action or massacred; 1,206 men, 1,203 women, and 1,732 children died during flight. The total fatalities amounted to 4,812–5,279 according to another source, i.e., 6–8 percent of the region's total Ossetian population. In the spring and summer of 1920, Georgia crushed the revolt. In February 1921, many Ossetians joined

320-567: The incorporation of South Ossetia into Soviet Russia. Already in February 1918, there were numerous outbreaks of disobedience among the Ossetian peasants who refused to pay taxes to the Tiflis -based Transcaucasian government. On 15 March 1918, the Ossetian peasants rose in rebellion and managed to hold off an offensive by a Georgian People's Guard punitive detachment commanded by an ethnic Ossetian officer, Kosta Kaziev. The fighting culminated in

340-478: The rebels forced the Bolsheviks to distance themselves from the Ossetian struggle. The Georgian People's Guard under Valiko Jugheli crushed the revolt with great violence, defeating the insurgents in a series of hard-fought battles. Many villages were burned down large areas were depopulated, around 5,000 people perished and 20,000 Ossetians were forced to seek refuge in Soviet Russia. Ossetian sources give

360-572: The tensions and the Menshevik mistakes to further strengthen their influence among the Ossetians. In 1920, a much larger Ossetian uprising took place, which was supported by the regional committee of the Bolshevik Russian Communist Party , which had gathered a military force in Vladikavkaz , the capital of modern-day North Ossetia-Alania , Russia . Despite assurance of respecting Georgia's territorial integrity in

380-537: The title War in South Ossetia . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=War_in_South_Ossetia&oldid=784913686 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Georgian%E2%80%93Ossetian conflict (1918%E2%80%931920) During its brief tenure,

400-424: The town of Tskhinvali which was occupied by the rebels on 19 March 1918. The Georgian People's Guard regained the control of Tskhinvali on 22 March. The uprising was finally suppressed and harsh repressive measures established in the region, generating resentment against the Mensheviks, being now equated, in the eyes of the Ossetians, with Georgians. This also opened the way for strong pro-Bolshevik sentiments among

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