Abkhazia Institute for Social and Economic Research

The AISER said at least a dozen seriously-ill children require urgent treatment outside of the Tshinvali, mainly young children stuck there and not allowed by selfproclaimed president Kokoity to leave in Georgian medical centers.
Ossetian pediatricians cited the cases with different pathologies who have very low immunity, are in urgent need of quilified care and treatment in Tbilisi.
Tbilisi constantly offers to take in the sick children, but no one is listening from Tshinvali. Those who have stayed in the Tshinvali and seeks medical attention from Georgian physicians have often become targets of kidnappings, torture and arbitrary arrest by armed militias. Finally,  Kokoity ordered to cut water supply to some ossetian villages, leaving those villages face the risk of infectious diseases.
Protesters, who are demanding the resumption of irrigation water supply to their villages, are gathered in the Georgian village of Ergneti at the administrative border with South Ossetia.
Secessionist authorities in Tskhinvali cut the supply of irrigation water to the Georgian villages in early June, in retaliation for the suspension of potable water supply to Tskhinvali. The breakaway region’s capital has had its supply restored since mid-June, acording to Tbilisi, but the South Ossetian side has refused to reciprocate.
A similar protest rally was held in Ergneti on July 1. Locals fear the loss of crops without irrigation water.

The Russian Foreign Ministry called on Tskhinvali on June 29 “to show maximum restraint and goodwill in relation to current problems, particularly water supply.”
Meanwhile, a series of shootouts in the conflict zone in recent days left four Georgians and at least two Ossetians injured. One South Ossetian militiaman, targeted by a sniper, was killed, according to the South Ossetian Press and Information Committee.
The Georgian side blamed the Russian peacekeeping troops for “inactivity, which amounts to a crime.”