* 30,000 mostly ethnic Georgians still displaced * Majority of those who fled to Russia returned to S.Ossetia * Displaced becoming more dependent on humanitarian aid By Amie Ferris-Rotman MOSCOW, Aug 7 (Reuters) - About 30,000 people are still displaced from the five-day war between Moscow and Tbilisi which erupted a year ago when Georgian forces attacked breakaway South Ossetia, Amnesty International said on Friday. The London-based rights group said the displaced, mostly ethhic Georgians, lack basic services and suffer hardship from the de facto borders dividing the pine-covered enclave and Georgia proper, which were established after the conflict when Moscow recognised South Ossetia as independent. Amnesty said 192,000 people were displaced in the war, which started on August 7, though the Georgian government had previously put this number at 138,000. In a new 46-page report on the displaced from the war, Amnesty said of the 38,500 people who fled to Russia from South Ossetia, all but an estimated 4,000 have returned. Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin, in a conference call on Thursday, declined to put a figure on the total number displaced, but said many displaced Georgians in South Ossetia will move to Georgia. The only official way into the region is now through the 4-km (2 1/2 mile) Roki Tunnel from North Ossetia in Russia as all borders with Georgia proper have been closed. Many displaced ethnic Georgians "no longer have access to their fields or orchards" due to the new borders or "because the area has not been cleared of explosives," Amnesty said. Many had become dependent on humanitarian aid. The closure of the monitoring mission by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the exclusion of EU monitors from South Ossetia deprives people of "international scrutiny", leading to insecurity, writes Amnesty. The rebel region's administration says South Ossetia today has a population of 63,000, and that several thousand ethnic Ossetians are still homeless. Reconstruction money from Moscow is trickling in to the region -- it has allotted 8.5 billion roubles ($273 million) this year -- though some officials complain it is stolen. (Reporting by Amie Ferris-Rotman; Editing by Richard Balmforth)
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