Six Georgian villages in the South Ossetian conflict zone still suffer from irrigation water shortage, the Office of the Georgian State Minister for Conflict Resolution Issues said in a statement on July 6.
It said the problem was caused by the South Ossetian side?s unwillingness to clean an irrigation channel.
?[South Ossetian secessionist leader Eduard] Kokoity?s regime has deployed militia in the village of Gujabauri, which are preventing Georgian workers from cleaning the channel,? the statement reads.
Georgian villagers had been blocking a road leading to the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, on July 2-4, demanding the South Ossetians resume irrigation water supply. The protesters dispersed late on July 4 after the water supply was restored.
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