He said this to RIA Novosti.
"Yes. There is a conversation about this, ”Bibilov answered the corresponding question of the agency’s journalist.
According to him, the events of 2008 are planned to be tied to the 1920 genocide.
“The fury with which they destroyed ordinary refugees on the turn onto the Road of Life, as we called it. The intensity of shelling of the city of Tskhinval, settlements, the number of deaths that was - this also cannot be considered the genocide of the Ossetian people, ”he said, commenting on the events of 2008.
According to the agency, in 2007 the parliament of South Ossetia decided to recognize the events of 1920 when the army of Menshevik Georgia invaded this region.
In September 2018, Bibilov in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper announced his readiness for dialogue with the Georgian authorities.
On the night of August 8, 2008, Georgia bombarded Tskhinval, the capital of South Ossetia, with an attempt to establish control over the republic. Within a few days, South Ossetian military forces, together with Russian troops, introduced into the region as part of a peacekeeping operation to force Georgia to peace, ousted Georgian troops from the territory of South Ossetia.