Sources: South Ossetia

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• Intergovernmental document · Intergovernmental organisation

  Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia and Tagliavini, Heidi, Report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia (Tagliavini Report), summary of findings (Council of the European Union) link

  Accessed via a secondary summary of the EU-commissioned mission's 30 September 2009 report rather than the full original report text; treated here as the summary of an authoritative intergovernmental investigation, not as a verbatim primary quotation. The mission, headed by Swiss diplomat and former UNOMIG head Heidi Tagliavini, found that Georgian shelling of Tskhinvali on the night of 7-8 August 2008 marked the start of large-scale hostilities following a long period of rising tension, that South Ossetian forces carried out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Georgians with Russian forces' inaction, and that all parties committed international humanitarian law violations.

  Cited on: South Ossetia, History of the South Ossetia dispute · Source record

• Reference work · Independent publication

  Russo-Georgian War (Wikipedia) link

  General-reference encyclopedia article, consulted via citation rather than primary military records, on the August 2008 war's timeline, military casualty figures, and Russia's 26 August 2008 recognition of South Ossetian and Abkhazian independence.

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• Reference work · Independent publication

  South Ossetia war (1991-1992) (Wikipedia) link

  General-reference encyclopedia article, consulted via citation rather than primary Georgian or Ossetian legislative or archival records. Covers the 1989-1990 escalation, the 5 January 1991-24 June 1992 war, the 29 May 1992 declaration of sovereignty, and the 24 June 1992 Dagomys/Sochi ceasefire agreement.

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• Intergovernmental document · Intergovernmental organisation

  United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly Resolution 76/267: Status of internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia, and the Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia, Georgia (United Nations) link

  Primary text, retrieved and read in full. Adopted 8 June 2022, part of an annual series of UN General Assembly resolutions (dating from 2008) recognizing the right of return of IDPs and refugees to their homes throughout Georgia, including the Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia, and referencing the Geneva International Discussions that began 15 October 2008.

  Cited on: South Ossetia, History of the South Ossetia dispute, South Ossetia: current international status · Source record