Russia/Georgia War Anniversary

July 23, 2011: A military checkpoint in Ergeneti, Georgia, before entering South Ossetia. (Yuli Weeks for VOA)

One of the villages many burned out houses in Karaleti. (Yuli Weeks for VOA)

Keti Doijashvili, 3, was born on August 8, 2008 while her village was being bombed. (Yuli Weeks for VOA)

Villagers took refuge in this church during the bombings in August of 2008. (Yuli Weeks for VOA)

South Ossetia has cut water to the village's irrigation canal. (Yuli Weeks for VOA)

Mania Doijashvili, 84. When South Ossetians came they locked her in her house and lit it on fire. No one knows how she escaped. (Yuli Weeks for VOA)

Ergeneti village on the border with South Ossetia. (Yuli Weeks for VOA)

Zoya Kasrati's father-in-law was burned alive during the 2008 war between Georgia and Russia in this very house. (Yuli Weeks for VOA)

A bullet fired by South Ossetian forces remains stuck in the wall of an abandoned house. (Yuli Weeks for VOA)

July 27, 2011: A refugee camp in Karaleti, Georgia. (Yuli Weeks for VOA)

Eteri Yantbelidze, 56, at her house in Karaleti. (Yuli Weeks for VOA)

Eteri Yantbelidze, 56, (left) and Liana Pervashvili, 58. (Yuli Weeks for VOA)

Laundry hanging to dry at the refugee camp. (Yuli Weeks for VOA)

Thea Kristesyashvili, 29, on her porch in Karaleti. (Yuli Weeks for VOA)

An altar inside a house at the refugee village. (Yuli Weeks for VOA)

Brothers Georgi, 4, (left) and Temur Pervashvili, 11. (Yuli Weeks for VOA)

Georgi Pervashvili, 4, moved to the refugee village from Eredvi, South Ossetia. (Yuli Weeks for VOA)

Neli Kazeshvili, 72, moved to the refugee village from Eredvi village, South Ossetia. (Yuli Weeks for VOA)

Nanuli Pervashvili, 55, had to leave her village Eredvi in South Ossetia. Now Eredvi no longer exists. (Yuli Weeks for VOA)

A group of men sit on a porch in this refugee camp playing backgammon. (Yuli Weeks for VOA)