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Russian probe accuses Georgia of genocide in conflict
AFP
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
A Russian probe on Tuesday alleged that Georgia committed genocide in its August conflict with Russia, the latest accusation in a bitter war of words between the two foes.
The probe’s findings came a day after objections from Moscow forced Europe’s OSCE security watchdog to wrap up its observer mission in Georgia, prompting a furious reaction from Tbilisi.
“We can say that we have witnessed the genocide of the Ossetian people,” the head of the Russian prosecutors’ investigative committee Alexander Bastrykin told reporters.
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He said 162 South Ossetian civilians were killed in the conflict — a figure much lower than that of 500 given by South Ossetian rebel authorities and that of over 1,500 given by Russian officials after the outbreak of hostilities.
“What is important is not the number. What is important is that we have established that there was a conscious and planned action to destroy the Ossetians as an ethnic group,” he said.
A senior Georgian official retorted that the accusation by Russian prosecutors was a “cynical lie.”
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December 23rd, 2008 at 12:42 pm
who cares kill em all
December 23rd, 2008 at 12:50 pm
russians are just a bunch of potato eatin, vodka drinkin, smelly commies
December 23rd, 2008 at 12:58 pm
#1:
You sound educated.
December 23rd, 2008 at 1:55 pm
runghospice, don’t even aknowledge comments like that. As for the genocide, it is a case with chances of winning because Georgia just wanted the land, not the people. They tried many times already. When people imagine genocide they imagine something like the Holocaust, but it doesn’t have to be millions of people that die. Ossetian population there isn’t very large, but attempts to erradicate them have occured. Whether through distruction of culture, language, and lives taken. Saakashvilli has been a disaster for the Georgian people. Thanks to one of the color revolutions.
December 23rd, 2008 at 2:45 pm
who cares about the ossetians. let me ask, did u lose any sleep when those people were dying? I bet u didnt, but u like to post comments on stupid message boards about your grand knowledge of what a holocaust is.
December 23rd, 2008 at 2:48 pm
yea Stalin treated his people like kings
December 23rd, 2008 at 2:51 pm
The Russians under Putin, oh I mean Medvedev, charging “genocide”? !52 dead?
Not like the good ol’ days when Lenin and Stalin took out millions!
December 23rd, 2008 at 3:20 pm
In the Russia Georgia crisis, the blame goes only to the criminal and fascist prime minister of Georgia, who started this terrorist war. He thought that USA will come to his help, but he was wrong.
December 23rd, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Russia is a dictatorship. Putin is their dictator. They just passed a law making protesting against the government or making comments against the government…and act of TREASON.
Putin and Medvedev cannot be trusted.
December 24th, 2008 at 12:01 am
genocide: the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.
Stalin was reason for this mess in the first place those who comment on this old Georgian Ossetian mixed blooded sociopath from hell that in no way represents Russia, but the Soviet Union, which was a Union of many states. It was under him that first attempts to get rid of Ossetian people took place as they were divided into North and South. They forced them to stop using their native language and text, changed to Georgian. They were excluded from representation in government. There were 3 periods in history where they try to kill them off their lands. It is just history of the region.
December 24th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
We started this.
December 25th, 2008 at 12:53 am
This was a clear Genocide that the Russian Federation putted an end to, and before pointing fingers at Russia in a historical perspective perhaps those who do so have forgotten about the fact that Soviet Union was their war friend, their sworn allied, their buddy, buddy during WW2.
I read a lot of BS posted by the so called anti-communist people that is only useful idiots as Stalin would had put it, these people is on the wrong side of the iron curtain still same shit.
Russian Federation reacted to a genocide and we the West choices to not recognize it like one as the new President elects Obama’s own advisor good old Russian hating Zbigniew Brzezinski puts Georgia in his book the Grand Chessboard as one top priority nation to be toppled and controlled by the west so that we have Geostrategic advantage over the Russian Federation. I am no communist but I can separate good from bad.
Knowledge is power Ignorance is stupidity.
December 25th, 2008 at 2:56 am
It’s been interesting watching the recap of the whole Georgia thing in the news. Apparently Russia were the aggressors in the incident. It seems as if the politicians have repeated, “Russia is at fault” so many times that it has now become truth! Scary that organisations like the BBC fall into line so easily, is there anything the corporate media say believable?
December 25th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
There’s one guy who seems to understand this stuff pretty good at http://www.subvertednation.com