On 09.06.2006 at 4:40 p.m. about 40 soldiers of the special forces of Georgia on 4 vehicles, armed with automatic and special weapons entered village Avnev, Znauri region of the RSO. One group dispersed along the road and the adjoining gardens, the second group dispersed at the junction of roads to Tskhinval, Avnev, Znaur. The group was stopping the passing by vehicles and beating the passengers. They stopped the employees of the GAI of the Ministry of Interior of RSO Sergeant of Militia Kokoev Arsen Borisovich and Sergeant of Militia Siukaev Mair Givievich, they were brutally beaten up for being of Ossetian ethnicity.