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USA approves Georgia’s aggression against South Ossetia and Russia.
http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/conflicts/11-08-2008/106053-georgia_ossetia_russia-0
USA approves Georgia’s aggression against South Ossetia and Russia
11.08.2008 Source: Pravda.Ru URL: http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/conflicts/106053-georgia_ossetia_russia-0
US presidential runoff John McCain said that Russia should not interfere in the conflict in South Ossetia. The pro-Georgian propaganda in the US media testifies to the same opinion. It brings up the idea that the Georgian aggression against the unrecognized republic of South Ossetia has been coordinated with the US administration. Nevertheless, all arguments of US politicians and experts (Pravda.ru interviewed some of them) do not withstand any criticism.
“We must immediately call a meeting of the NATO Council to estimate Georgia’s security and consider the measures, which NATO may take to stabilize the highly dangerous situation,” John McCain said.
“The international community needs to deploy independent and neutral peacemaking forces in South Ossetia. Russia must immediately and unconditionally cease its military operations and withdraw troops from the sovereign territory of Georgia,” McCain believes.
Ariel Cohen, a well-known US specialist on the Soviet Union, a Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, stated that Russia was planning the incursion for months and that it was intended to demonstrate its hegemony over Eastern Europe, push Mr. Saakashvili from power in Georgia and not to let Georgia become a NATO member.
Apparently, McCain and other US experts believe that the extermination of thousands of innocent people and the destruction of their houses can be referred to as the retrieval of the territorial integrity.
It is worthy of note that Russia’s Air Force already prevented Georgia’s aggression against South Ossetia a month ago. The situation aggravated soon after Condoleezza Rice’s visit to Georgia. It is not ruled out that Ms. Rice okayed the beginning of the war in the region on behalf of the US administration.
Taking McCain’s remarks into consideration, one shall assume that the USA has provided certain guarantees to Georgia. The Georgian troops would not have opened fire on Russian peacemakers otherwise. Such battles inevitably lead to a war against Russia. Georgia would not dare to proceed so alone, without the support from the West. Furthermore, Georgia asked the USA to withdraw its contingent from Iraq to redeploy the military men to South Ossetia.
The evidence to proof the USA’s hand behind the Georgian aggression against South Ossetia can be found in Western media. Western news agencies, Reuters, for example, have been distributing countless photographs depicting Russia’s supposed atrocities in Georgia. Such photos along with adequate headlines can be found in practically all US newspapers (The New York Times is the best example for it). All of them unanimously accuse Russia of aggression against Georgia, but they do not say a word about Georgia’s actions against civilians in S. Ossetia.
This war has given the US administration an excellent opportunity to distract attention from the Summer Olympics in Beijing, which Washington originally intended to disrupt. In addition, it would escalate the situation in the restive Caucasus to exhaust Russia with never-ending conflicts there. In this case the US would obtain a full right to enter the territory under the guise of peacemaking forces and grant the NATO membership to Georgia.
Ukraine ’s Foreign Ministry would not have released its anti-Russian statement without USA’s instructions either. Ukraine virtually supported Georgia’s aggression having acknowledged the right of the latter to defend its territorial integrity with the use of military force.
A for history, the question of separatism – Georgia or Ossetia – is disputable. It was Georgia which decided to pull out from the USSR, whereas the Ossetians protested against such a decision.
Georgia shells hospitals and houses, killing thousands of Ossetians. Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic used to be charged with genocide for the slaughter of several dozens of Albanians.
US politicians have not voiced an appeal to cease the extermination of South Ossetia people. Vice versa, John McCain attempts to turn everything upside down accusing Russia of aggression, although Russia took adequate measures to save the Ossetians from extermination. The USA does not condemn Mikhail Saakashvili, which is another fact to prove that the Georgian president has won USA’s approval for the war.
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http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/conflicts/10-08-2008/106050-georgia-0
Georgian troops burn South Ossetian refugees alive
10.08.2008 Source: Pravda.Ru URL: http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/conflicts/106050-georgia-0
Israeli mass media published several articles August 10 dedicated to the war in South Ossetia. Newspapers paid special attention to arms shipments to Georgia, which Israel had made in the past. A former defense ministry official said that the Georgian army had no chances in the opposition to the Russian army.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry accused Ukraine of encouraging Georgia to interventions and ethnic cleansings in South Ossetia. Russia also claimed that Ukraine had armed Georgia to the teeth. Georgia’s ground forces possess weapons, ammunition, unmanned aircraft, night vision goggles and other equipment made in Israel.
Israel’s Defense Ministry recommended to cease arms shipments to Georgia after the start of military actions in South Ossetia, not to provoke Russia.
Battles in South Ossetia continued throughout the night. Russian sources said that about 2,000 people had been killed in South Ossetia.
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stated that the country reserved the right to forbid vessels of the Russian Black Sea Navy to return to their base in Ukraine’s Sevastopol.
Ukrainian official said that Ukraine was not willing to become involved in the conflict.
In the meantime, the armed forces of another unrecognized republic, Abkhazia, moved closer to its borderline with Georgia, Interfax reports with reference to Abkhazia’s defense ministry.
“Georgia does not stop its treacherous actions on Abkhazia’s border and continues to intensify its military presence. The armed forces of the republic were forced to enter the security zone and advance towards the Georgian border,” an official spokesman for the defense ministry of Abkhazia said.
It was reported that Georgia delivered a note to the Consul of the Russian Federation to Georgia which said that Georgia intended to end military actions in South Ossetia on August 10.
The note also said that Georgia was ready to immediately start cease-fire negotiations with the Russian Federation, Interfax reports.
However, fierce battles in South Ossetia continued on August 10 despite the official note. In addition, Georgia’s Defense Minister, Timur Yakobashvili, stated Sunday that the retreat of the Georgian troops from South Ossetia was out of the question.
“We decided to redeploy our troops to be able to resist the Russian armed forces, which outnumber our troops,” Yakobasvili said.
Russia’s General Staff of Armed Forces said that Russia had lost only two fighter jets in the conflict zone, but not 12 jets, as Georgian officials previously claimed.
“This number has nothing to do with the real state of affairs. We lost two aircraft – Su-25 and Tu-22 – and the situation has not changed since then,” Russia’s senior defense official, Anatoly Nogovitsin said.
Ossetian journalists wrote on their website that Georgian troops had captured a group of refugees from one of the regions of S. Ossetia. The Georgian military men locked them in a house and set the house on fire, burning all the people inside alive. An Ossetian woman informed Russian Prime Minister Putin of the hideous crime during his visit to a refugee camp. Another woman told Putin that she had seen a Georgian tank running over an elderly Ossetian woman who was trying to save two children. The woman was running out of the village, occupied the by the Georgian troops.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner called the hostilities in South Ossetia "massacres" and also said Sunday he would press Georgia and Russia for an immediate end to the violence in the breakaway Georgian province.
Kouchner said the EU cannot allow such a "Middle Age battle" to continue. He spoke in an interview with The Associated Press hours before he and Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb left Paris for a meeting with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili in Tbilisi.
The EU "cannot accept such a war, a terribly devastating and ... unacceptable war, at our doors," Kouchner said. France has held the EU's six-month rotating presidency since July 1.
French President Sarkozy, who spoke by telephone with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Georgian Mikhail Saakashvili, said an agreement between the two neighbors not to use force against one another would be the best way of making sure any future accord would stick.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, however, disputed Georgia's claim that its troops have pulled out of South Ossetia. He said there were still Georgian troops in certain neighborhoods of provincial capital Tskhinvali, the AP reports.
Russia, which has outgunned the Georgian army and showcased its military might during the conflict, must be treated as "a great partner" in order for a political solution to be found, Kouchner said.
"There is not at all a military solution in this area, absolutely not, and we all know that," he said.
The EU, the United Nations and the U.S. could be among participants in any future political solution, Kouchner said. He did not say in what role they could contribute.
Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski urged the EU to send a peacekeeping mission, telling Poland's TVN24 that Europe "could be a good partner because it's credible to both sides."
Georgia began an offensive to regain control over South Ossetia overnight Friday, launching heavy rocket and artillery fire and air strikes, killing hundreds of innocent people. In response, Russia, which has granted passports to most South Ossetians, launched overwhelming artillery shelling and air attacks on Georgian troops.
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USA approves Georgia’s aggression against South Ossetia and Russia
11.08.2008 Source: Pravda.Ru URL: http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/conflicts/106053-georgia_ossetia_russia-0
US presidential runoff John McCain said that Russia should not interfere in the conflict in South Ossetia. The pro-Georgian propaganda in the US media testifies to the same opinion. It brings up the idea that the Georgian aggression against the unrecognized republic of South Ossetia has been coordinated with the US administration. Nevertheless, all arguments of US politicians and experts (Pravda.ru interviewed some of them) do not withstand any criticism.
“We must immediately call a meeting of the NATO Council to estimate Georgia’s security and consider the measures, which NATO may take to stabilize the highly dangerous situation,” John McCain said.
“The international community needs to deploy independent and neutral peacemaking forces in South Ossetia. Russia must immediately and unconditionally cease its military operations and withdraw troops from the sovereign territory of Georgia,” McCain believes.
Ariel Cohen, a well-known US specialist on the Soviet Union, a Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, stated that Russia was planning the incursion for months and that it was intended to demonstrate its hegemony over Eastern Europe, push Mr. Saakashvili from power in Georgia and not to let Georgia become a NATO member.
Apparently, McCain and other US experts believe that the extermination of thousands of innocent people and the destruction of their houses can be referred to as the retrieval of the territorial integrity.
It is worthy of note that Russia’s Air Force already prevented Georgia’s aggression against South Ossetia a month ago. The situation aggravated soon after Condoleezza Rice’s visit to Georgia. It is not ruled out that Ms. Rice okayed the beginning of the war in the region on behalf of the US administration.
Taking McCain’s remarks into consideration, one shall assume that the USA has provided certain guarantees to Georgia. The Georgian troops would not have opened fire on Russian peacemakers otherwise. Such battles inevitably lead to a war against Russia. Georgia would not dare to proceed so alone, without the support from the West. Furthermore, Georgia asked the USA to withdraw its contingent from Iraq to redeploy the military men to South Ossetia.
The evidence to proof the USA’s hand behind the Georgian aggression against South Ossetia can be found in Western media. Western news agencies, Reuters, for example, have been distributing countless photographs depicting Russia’s supposed atrocities in Georgia. Such photos along with adequate headlines can be found in practically all US newspapers (The New York Times is the best example for it). All of them unanimously accuse Russia of aggression against Georgia, but they do not say a word about Georgia’s actions against civilians in S. Ossetia.
This war has given the US administration an excellent opportunity to distract attention from the Summer Olympics in Beijing, which Washington originally intended to disrupt. In addition, it would escalate the situation in the restive Caucasus to exhaust Russia with never-ending conflicts there. In this case the US would obtain a full right to enter the territory under the guise of peacemaking forces and grant the NATO membership to Georgia.
Ukraine ’s Foreign Ministry would not have released its anti-Russian statement without USA’s instructions either. Ukraine virtually supported Georgia’s aggression having acknowledged the right of the latter to defend its territorial integrity with the use of military force.
A for history, the question of separatism – Georgia or Ossetia – is disputable. It was Georgia which decided to pull out from the USSR, whereas the Ossetians protested against such a decision.
Georgia shells hospitals and houses, killing thousands of Ossetians. Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic used to be charged with genocide for the slaughter of several dozens of Albanians.
US politicians have not voiced an appeal to cease the extermination of South Ossetia people. Vice versa, John McCain attempts to turn everything upside down accusing Russia of aggression, although Russia took adequate measures to save the Ossetians from extermination. The USA does not condemn Mikhail Saakashvili, which is another fact to prove that the Georgian president has won USA’s approval for the war.
© 1999-2006. «PRAVDA.Ru». When reproducing our materials in whole or in part, hyperlink to PRAVDA.Ru should be made. The opinions and views of the authors do not always coincide with the point of view of PRAVDA.Ru's editors.
http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/conflicts/10-08-2008/106050-georgia-0
Georgian troops burn South Ossetian refugees alive
10.08.2008 Source: Pravda.Ru URL: http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/conflicts/106050-georgia-0
Israeli mass media published several articles August 10 dedicated to the war in South Ossetia. Newspapers paid special attention to arms shipments to Georgia, which Israel had made in the past. A former defense ministry official said that the Georgian army had no chances in the opposition to the Russian army.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry accused Ukraine of encouraging Georgia to interventions and ethnic cleansings in South Ossetia. Russia also claimed that Ukraine had armed Georgia to the teeth. Georgia’s ground forces possess weapons, ammunition, unmanned aircraft, night vision goggles and other equipment made in Israel.
Israel’s Defense Ministry recommended to cease arms shipments to Georgia after the start of military actions in South Ossetia, not to provoke Russia.
Battles in South Ossetia continued throughout the night. Russian sources said that about 2,000 people had been killed in South Ossetia.
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stated that the country reserved the right to forbid vessels of the Russian Black Sea Navy to return to their base in Ukraine’s Sevastopol.
Ukrainian official said that Ukraine was not willing to become involved in the conflict.
In the meantime, the armed forces of another unrecognized republic, Abkhazia, moved closer to its borderline with Georgia, Interfax reports with reference to Abkhazia’s defense ministry.
“Georgia does not stop its treacherous actions on Abkhazia’s border and continues to intensify its military presence. The armed forces of the republic were forced to enter the security zone and advance towards the Georgian border,” an official spokesman for the defense ministry of Abkhazia said.
It was reported that Georgia delivered a note to the Consul of the Russian Federation to Georgia which said that Georgia intended to end military actions in South Ossetia on August 10.
The note also said that Georgia was ready to immediately start cease-fire negotiations with the Russian Federation, Interfax reports.
However, fierce battles in South Ossetia continued on August 10 despite the official note. In addition, Georgia’s Defense Minister, Timur Yakobashvili, stated Sunday that the retreat of the Georgian troops from South Ossetia was out of the question.
“We decided to redeploy our troops to be able to resist the Russian armed forces, which outnumber our troops,” Yakobasvili said.
Russia’s General Staff of Armed Forces said that Russia had lost only two fighter jets in the conflict zone, but not 12 jets, as Georgian officials previously claimed.
“This number has nothing to do with the real state of affairs. We lost two aircraft – Su-25 and Tu-22 – and the situation has not changed since then,” Russia’s senior defense official, Anatoly Nogovitsin said.
Ossetian journalists wrote on their website that Georgian troops had captured a group of refugees from one of the regions of S. Ossetia. The Georgian military men locked them in a house and set the house on fire, burning all the people inside alive. An Ossetian woman informed Russian Prime Minister Putin of the hideous crime during his visit to a refugee camp. Another woman told Putin that she had seen a Georgian tank running over an elderly Ossetian woman who was trying to save two children. The woman was running out of the village, occupied the by the Georgian troops.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner called the hostilities in South Ossetia "massacres" and also said Sunday he would press Georgia and Russia for an immediate end to the violence in the breakaway Georgian province.
Kouchner said the EU cannot allow such a "Middle Age battle" to continue. He spoke in an interview with The Associated Press hours before he and Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb left Paris for a meeting with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili in Tbilisi.
The EU "cannot accept such a war, a terribly devastating and ... unacceptable war, at our doors," Kouchner said. France has held the EU's six-month rotating presidency since July 1.
French President Sarkozy, who spoke by telephone with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Georgian Mikhail Saakashvili, said an agreement between the two neighbors not to use force against one another would be the best way of making sure any future accord would stick.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, however, disputed Georgia's claim that its troops have pulled out of South Ossetia. He said there were still Georgian troops in certain neighborhoods of provincial capital Tskhinvali, the AP reports.
Russia, which has outgunned the Georgian army and showcased its military might during the conflict, must be treated as "a great partner" in order for a political solution to be found, Kouchner said.
"There is not at all a military solution in this area, absolutely not, and we all know that," he said.
The EU, the United Nations and the U.S. could be among participants in any future political solution, Kouchner said. He did not say in what role they could contribute.
Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski urged the EU to send a peacekeeping mission, telling Poland's TVN24 that Europe "could be a good partner because it's credible to both sides."
Georgia began an offensive to regain control over South Ossetia overnight Friday, launching heavy rocket and artillery fire and air strikes, killing hundreds of innocent people. In response, Russia, which has granted passports to most South Ossetians, launched overwhelming artillery shelling and air attacks on Georgian troops.
© 1999-2006. «PRAVDA.Ru». When reproducing our materials in whole or in part, hyperlink to PRAVDA.Ru should be made. The opinions and views of the authors do not always coincide with the point of view of PRAVDA.Ru's editors.
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Thank you, reposter, for your unbiased analysis. It's refreshing and rare. May God bless you.
by Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008 at 3:29 PM
The current President of Georgia, Michael Sakaashvilli, is putting the people of Georgia in grave danger by playing the role as a lapdog of the U.S. and provoking Russia by attacking south Ossetia. The interests of the U.S. are in controlling oil pipelines, the people of Georgia are seen as disposable. Not like Sakaashvilli is putting himself in any personal danger other than publicity stunts for the camera, though innocent people will (as usual) be the victims of the international power plays..
For a trip down memory lane let's remind ourselves of the interconnectedness of global affairs and how control of oil reserves and transport is the issue here. Include in this the global control of the opium market and the continued presence of the U.S. military in Afghanistan;
From Micheal Ruppert (now living in Venezuala for personal safety reasons);
"Now, as the CIA moves to control the drug trade in the region you can be sure of several things. First, when the world sees an explosion of heroin from the region it won't be the Taliban's doing. Second, the cash flows from the smuggling will now be directed through U.S. banks and stocks. That is what the CIA does. Third, those cash flows - as direct air operations from Tashkent to the U.S. become commonplace - will be taken away from Russia, the Balkans, Turkey and Eastern Europe. Fourth, the result of that will be de-stabilization of the entire region. Fifth, destabilization in the region will Balkanize Russia. Sixth, the increasing U.S. military and economic presence will consolidate U.S. control over the vast oil and gas reserves in the region. A revived Unocal-Saudi pipeline project, which will begin construction soon after the U.S. establishes control, will take the oil and gas from Central Asia, through Afghanistan, and down to the Pakistani coast where it will then be sold to China and Japan. The profits from those sales will come back into Wall Street. This will be a further drain on Russian influence in the region and greatly increase global instability.
Throughout the 1990s the United States - under an exclusive arrangement coordinated by the Harvard Endowment, Goldman Sachs and the U.S Treasury - looted some $300 billion from Russia. During the period from 1989-2001 the population of that country shrank from 165 to 145 million people. As infrastructure collapsed, as services disappeared, as unemployment skyrocketed, as the Ruble collapsed, the life expectancy for a Russian male dropped from 68 to 48 years.
Make no mistake. Russia is the target here just as much as is the propping up of a feeble U.S. economy with drug money. And remember that Russia still has most of its nuclear arsenal intact."
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The current President of Georgia, Michael Sakaashvilli, is putting the people of Georgia in grave danger by playing the role as a lapdog of the U.S. and provoking Russia by attacking south Ossetia. The interests of the U.S. are in controlling oil pipelines, the people of Georgia are seen as disposable. Not like Sakaashvilli is putting himself in any personal danger other than publicity stunts for the camera, though innocent people will (as usual) be the victims of the international power plays..
For a trip down memory lane let's remind ourselves of the interconnectedness of global affairs and how control of oil reserves and transport is the issue here. Include in this the global control of the opium market and the continued presence of the U.S. military in Afghanistan;
From Micheal Ruppert (now living in Venezuala for personal safety reasons);
"Now, as the CIA moves to control the drug trade in the region you can be sure of several things. First, when the world sees an explosion of heroin from the region it won't be the Taliban's doing. Second, the cash flows from the smuggling will now be directed through U.S. banks and stocks. That is what the CIA does. Third, those cash flows - as direct air operations from Tashkent to the U.S. become commonplace - will be taken away from Russia, the Balkans, Turkey and Eastern Europe. Fourth, the result of that will be de-stabilization of the entire region. Fifth, destabilization in the region will Balkanize Russia. Sixth, the increasing U.S. military and economic presence will consolidate U.S. control over the vast oil and gas reserves in the region. A revived Unocal-Saudi pipeline project, which will begin construction soon after the U.S. establishes control, will take the oil and gas from Central Asia, through Afghanistan, and down to the Pakistani coast where it will then be sold to China and Japan. The profits from those sales will come back into Wall Street. This will be a further drain on Russian influence in the region and greatly increase global instability.
Throughout the 1990s the United States - under an exclusive arrangement coordinated by the Harvard Endowment, Goldman Sachs and the U.S Treasury - looted some $300 billion from Russia. During the period from 1989-2001 the population of that country shrank from 165 to 145 million people. As infrastructure collapsed, as services disappeared, as unemployment skyrocketed, as the Ruble collapsed, the life expectancy for a Russian male dropped from 68 to 48 years.
Make no mistake. Russia is the target here just as much as is the propping up of a feeble U.S. economy with drug money. And remember that Russia still has most of its nuclear arsenal intact."
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Go write for Pravda, tovarish.
Now if this had been America instead of Russia one would be seeing this motorway strewn with burnt out trucks and incinerated Georgian bodies of the RETREATING troops, besides the napalm bombed civilian population and obliterated ruined towns, and this would be OK even good and Christian and a lovely thing to see!!
A 'shock and awe' to terrorize the people of the world with.
Additional to the horrendously biased reporting which either ignored the fact that Georgia instigated an un provoked and cowardly attack on Russian and Ossetian peacekeepers, or even reports the war as an act of Russian aggression (strangely ITV gave a more honest report than did the lying BBC and channel 5) Now there is evidence that the media deliberately lied about film footage. Please see Times, Telegraph and others- they have all used this footage as lying propaganda.
Due to the clearly orchestrated media false reporting, I wonder whether the news media had been tipped off by the aggressors ahead of their action?
What we have here is video evidence of a war crime.
I believe that everyone should start shouting for war crimes trials of the instigators of this war.
It is a strange coincidence that while we see, at the present time, a Serb being arraigned before the International court for war crimes- attacks against civilians, no one is clamouring for the prime minister of Georgia to be put on trial.
JB
http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&q=Russian+newspapers&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=news_group&resnum=1&ct=title
Georgia and Russia: what really happened?
Starting from 1989 the Georgian government has supported the policy of oppression and intimidation of the population in South Ossetia. Starting from 1991 as the consequence of repeated military actions that were undertaken by the Georgian government against their own people thousands of civilians have been killed. The western media was silent due to the US strategic interests in the region and its current US sponsored puppet government. And what is the reason for this? The same old story: the oil pipeline which goes through Georgia supplying the US and Europe.
So what is the result? What did happen? This is something that you won't see on your TV.
The chronology and the facts are taken from the UN assembly meeting. They are not subject to any misinterpretation by any media. EU, USA and Russia all agree with the information stated below except for some statements that are disputed. Those statements will be marked for your notice.
10 pm 07.08.2008
Georgian military forces invaded the separatist region of South Ossetia.
3 30 am 08.08.2008
Georgian tanks entered the city of Tskhinvali. Georgian artillery strikes resulted in deaths of many soldiers and civilians living in South Ossetia including some Russian peacekeepers. (Russians claim that 1600-2000 civilians were killed due to Georgian artillery strikes and insist on calling those actions - genocide. US denied all the genocide claims. Russian military inspectors conducted an investigation and collected evidence of the genocide committed that was then given to the UN. No respond was given yet.)
The evening of 08.08.2008
The Russian peacekeepers arrived in South Ossetia in order to resolve the conflict, provide peace and to protect Russian citizens living on the territory of South Ossetia (about 75-90% of the populace). The Russians were obliged to intervene by the agreements signed between them and Georgia in the early ninety's. (The justification for the intervention was positively accepted by the UN including USA. The disputed issue is the scale of the intervention. USA and some European countries insist that the scale of retaliation is not justified.
If you don't believe me then please do you own research. Just don't believe everything that the media tell us.
What do you think about the issue? Any comments?
Starting from 1989 the Georgian government has supported the policy of oppression and intimidation of the population in South Ossetia. Starting from 1991 as the consequence of repeated military actions that were undertaken by the Georgian government against their own people thousands of civilians have been killed. The western media was silent due to the US strategic interests in the region and its current US sponsored puppet government. And what is the reason for this? The same old story: the oil pipeline which goes through Georgia supplying the US and Europe.
So what is the result? What did happen? This is something that you won't see on your TV.
The chronology and the facts are taken from the UN assembly meeting. They are not subject to any misinterpretation by any media. EU, USA and Russia all agree with the information stated below except for some statements that are disputed. Those statements will be marked for your notice.
10 pm 07.08.2008
Georgian military forces invaded the separatist region of South Ossetia.
3 30 am 08.08.2008
Georgian tanks entered the city of Tskhinvali. Georgian artillery strikes resulted in deaths of many soldiers and civilians living in South Ossetia including some Russian peacekeepers. (Russians claim that 1600-2000 civilians were killed due to Georgian artillery strikes and insist on calling those actions - genocide. US denied all the genocide claims. Russian military inspectors conducted an investigation and collected evidence of the genocide committed that was then given to the UN. No respond was given yet.)
The evening of 08.08.2008
The Russian peacekeepers arrived in South Ossetia in order to resolve the conflict, provide peace and to protect Russian citizens living on the territory of South Ossetia (about 75-90% of the populace). The Russians were obliged to intervene by the agreements signed between them and Georgia in the early ninety's. (The justification for the intervention was positively accepted by the UN including USA. The disputed issue is the scale of the intervention. USA and some European countries insist that the scale of retaliation is not justified.
If you don't believe me then please do you own research. Just don't believe everything that the media tell us.
What do you think about the issue? Any comments?
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