Zhanna Galeyeva, who also heads the non-governmental 'Organisation of the South Ossetian people against genocide,' said the group has received a total of 2,500 lawsuits from the republic's residents.
"About 300 of them have been sent to the Hague court, and 200 will be presented to the court in the next few days," she said.
In mid-August, Georgia filed a lawsuit against Russia at the same court for alleged ethnic cleansing during three military interventions in South Ossetia and Abkhazia from 1993 to 2008. In return, Russian prosecutors have begun gathering evidence to support allegations of genocide committed by Georgia against South Ossetians, most of whom hold Russian citizenship.
Russia officially recognized the Georgian breakaway republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent countries last Tuesday.
