Ossetians in trenches on the outskirts of Tskhinvali, 1991. The men are using antiquated Russian Mosin-Nagant rifles first produced in the 1890s. Throughout 1991 the patchwork of Georgian and Ossetian villages that made up South Ossetia was riven with interethnic murders and intimidation. (Photo by Gennady Khamelyanin/ITAR-TASS)
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