DECISION
TAKEN BY THE 13TH SESSION OF THE SOUTH OSSETIAN OBLAST COUNCIL OF THE PEOPLE’S
DEPUTIES OF THE 20TH CONVOCATION on the
information of the commission on study of conduct of soviet, law-enforcement
agencies and state officials during the difficult public and political
situation in the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast in 1989-1990
The 13th Session of the South Ossetian Oblast
Council of the People’s Deputies of the 20th convocation decides:
1. To endorse the information of the commission on
study of conduct of the Soviet, law-enforcement agencies and state officials
during the difficult public and political situation in the South Ossetian
Autonomous Oblast in 1989-1990; to publish it in the local press with the
decision adopted and forward to the Supreme Council of the USSR, Georgian SSR
and Helsinki Union on protection of Human Rights.
2. To consider:
- public and political situation on the territory
of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast since May of 1989 up today as extreme
and extraordinary;
- the events, which took place from 23 November
1989 and from February 1990 - as violent act of armed informal formations of
organizations and agencies of Georgia against the peaceful population of the
autonomous oblast accompanied with the lack of counteractions of the local and
republic authorities that led destabilization of public and political situation
in the region, resulted in human victims, material damages and excessive
suffering of innocent, peaceful residents of the oblast.
3. To consider extremely inadequate the conduct of
the Ispolcom of the People’s Deputies of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast
during the difficult public and political situation and demand of the
resignation of its present members.
(…)
4. Taking into consideration the difficult public
and political situation established in the region, to ask the Supreme Council
of the Georgian SSR for the permission on holding the election of the local
Councils of the People’s Deputies on the territory of the South Ossetian
Autonomous Oblast coinciding with the election of the Supreme Council of the
Georgian SSR in October-November of 1990.
5. To raise the following issues before the
Supreme Council of the
- to give the political
and legal assessment to the tragic events in the South Ossetian Autonomous
Oblast that have entailed human victims.
- to find the resources
for compensation of material and moral damages;
- to prevent the
possibility of the repeated violence in the oblast.
8. To entrust the Ispolcom of the People’s
Deputies of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast with the following tasks:
(…)
- to elaborate and
implement within ten days the practical measures for the stabilization of
public and political situation in the oblast and strengthen the true friendship
of the people…
- to elaborate practical measures for selection,
training and assignment of personnel in the law-enforcement agencies from the
local residents, those who speak Ossetian, Georgian and Russian languages; to
inform the next session about the done activity;
- to bar from any
assignments or dismissals of officials with the breach of “Law on the South
Ossetian Autonomous Oblast”:
- to bar from any
assignments or dismissals with regard of ethnic affiliation…
(…)
- to set up commission on
learning of and solving the issues relating to the refugees;
- respecting the proposals of the specialist and
public opinion to elaborate and publish within a month term the draft concept
of economic independence of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast with further
approval at the session of the oblast Council of the People’s Deputies.
9. The leadership of the Oblast, on the
alternative basis, shall decide within 10-day term the issue of appointment of
the Prosecutor of the Oblast and the head of the Interior Affairs of the South
Ossetian Oblispolcom from the local specialists having command of three state
languages.
10. To raise immediately the issue before the
Council of Ministers of the Georgian SSR:
- on compensation of
material and moral damages subsequent upon destabilization of the public and
political situation that entailed the tragic events of 1989-1990;
(…)
Chairman of the Ispolcom of the Council
of People’s Deputies of the South Ossetian Autonomous
Oblast F. Zaseev
Secretary of the Ispolcom of the Council
of People’s Deputies of the South Ossetian
Autonomous Oblast I. Kokoev
(Newspaper “Sovetskaia Ossetia”, # 160, 23 August, 1990)