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Georgian Atrocities in South Ossetia Revealed
American reporter Tom Parfitt travelled to Tskhinvali, the Capital of South Ossetia, and files this report which stands in stark contrast to condemnation of Russia in the western press.
A convoy of three buses and an escort of armed Russian Special Forces soldiers travelled across the border with Russia into South Ossetia yesterday, in a trip organised by the Kremlin for foreign media to witness first hand the destruction in Tskhinvali.At the village of Dzhava 20 miles beyond the border a huge queue of Russian military hardware stood pointing south, testament to the might of the resurgent Russian state.
Several truck-mounted rocket launchers were a sign of Moscow's intent to hold Tskhinvali at all costs. Approaching Tskhinvali, the group of reporters was transferred to armoured personnel carriers because of the risk of fire from Georgian snipers, said the Russian officers leading the trip.
In villages close to the city there were many burned out houses, and others were still ablaze. In the city itself it was clear that claims the city had been levelled to the ground by artillery were exaggerated. However, it was also evident that while some neighbourhoods were intact, there were patches of terrible destruction.
At a crossroads in the north of the city there was evidence of a fierce fire fight. Three destroyed Georgian tanks were slewed across the road, a mess of ash and twisted metal. The heavy turret of one tank had been tossed across the street, falling through a shop front. Nearby on the ground lay a human foot.
August 15, 2008 at 10:25 am by moonwolf, 816 views, 23 comments
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at 16:10 on August 15th, 2008
Finally Western journalists can see the destruction with their own eyes and talk to the victims without any intermediaries. Russia Today is reporting that there are not enough coffins to bury people because practically every single family in the Ossetian region has lost a dear one in this war. It is ironic that the Ossetian people are talked about the least (if at all) in the coverage of this war. The disregard for Ossetians is what makes this conflict different from Chechnya, Xinjiang, and Tibet, in all of which the people fighting for the independence were the center of media attention. Instead, it is all about the political ambitions of Georgia, Russia and USA.
at 11:40 on August 15th, 2008
moonwolf, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 12:20 on August 15th, 2008
Thanks yuls.source.
at 14:08 on August 15th, 2008
moonwolf, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 14:21 on August 15th, 2008
moonwolf, I like this story. It's good stuff.
What an interesting article - good find.
at 14:23 on August 15th, 2008
moonwolf, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 15:14 on August 15th, 2008
It is obvious to any objective person that the huge and vicious Russian response was well planned and well orchestrated. The Russian response could never have taken place in the time frame involved and in the massing of troops and armor unless it had been planned and put into operation over many weeks or months. Then the Russians orchestrated incursions and atrocities that brought the Georgians into a battle that was lost before the first shot was fired.
at 18:45 on August 15th, 2008
Joellerose,
Since you have all the facts and the timeline backwards, I think it might be better to leave this discussion to the grownups.
at 07:30 on August 16th, 2008
PROOF OF DECEIT !
http://ossetians.com/eng/news.php?newsid=479&f=36&PHPSESSID=a161c692d7332b9d36a23bb55d854b8f
"I’m in show business, why come to me?"
"War is show business, that’s why we’re here."
– "Wag the Dog" (1997 film)
at 15:16 on August 15th, 2008
moonwolf, I like this story. Bad news on both sides..
at 15:17 on August 15th, 2008
moonwolf, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 16:15 on August 15th, 2008
I hear the Georgians are crying out for American aid. Is the cease fire still holding, and are the Americans going to send in any troops?
at 16:18 on August 15th, 2008
Here is the video of Neocon network being caught off-guard during a live interview with an Ossetian-American girl who happened to be visiting her relatives in Ossetia when the conflict began. She ended up having to hide in the basement of her uncle's house until she could run away to Russia and than back to the US. As she was trying to make her point about Georgia's troops attacking, she was cut off by the news anchor, who said he had to urgently take a commercial break.
at 16:31 on August 15th, 2008
at 17:19 on August 15th, 2008
moonwolf, people who have been listening to media outside of the USA have known for some time that Georgia started and that Boy George (et alli) got it wrong (again).
at 18:06 on August 15th, 2008
moonwolf, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Gives a lot of basis to my latest story on newpublic.
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Maka Pugliese (not verified)at 18:31 on August 15th, 2008
you guys want to see looting and atrocities check our Gori and surrounding
Georgian villages, Russian troops are followed by Ossetian criminals and war lords, they are first looting and then burning the houses of georgians there to make sure that "georgians will not come back " as well as killing and raping whoever is left behind as russian troops stand by and watch. (check out BBC page as well as AP and NY times editorial with Quotes and interviews with russian generals who confirm). In civilized world this is called "Ethnic Cleaning" but in russian its "the laws of war" that everybody should know. Russians stood by in Tskhinvali long before august 8 and did not protect the georgian citizens of that town, ossecians are not the only nationality living there you know. Please do your fact check before you post things and what is this "hold Tskhinvali at any cost"? yea must have been very difficult for russian forces storming from the north, Who bombed Tskhinvali ? we will all find out
at 18:53 on August 15th, 2008
You sound like the georgian prime minster, lol
at 05:58 on August 16th, 2008
Nothing ever changes. Whenever the Soviet Union and now Russia invade, plunder and murder, the left fall all over themselves spinning, revising history and making excuses. Thank God the civilized world is well aware of just what happened here, although it doesn't seem we have many realistic choices in reversing this atrocity. Hopefully Western Europe will get some backbone and extend NATO membership to Georgia and the Ukraine.
at 07:47 on August 16th, 2008
* EARTH TO JOELLEROSE * EARTH TO JOELLEROSE * COME IN JOELLEROSE * JOELLEROSE DO YOU COPY ?
Even Pat Buchanan, a well know leftist if there ever was one, can see the truth & comment on reality instead of gobling down lies & propaganda as if there was no tomorow...
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Blowback From Bear-Baiting By Patrick J. Buchanan Mikheil Saakashvili's decision to use the opening of the Olympic Games to cover Georgia's invasion of its breakaway province of South Ossetia must rank in stupidity with Gamal Abdel-Nasser's decision to close the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ships.http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20522.htm ***** Now, this does not mean that Russia's so called leaders are nothing but just another criminal organization like our very own Bush family crime syndicate, it would tend to prove though that some seem to be able to read plain English better than others I guess ;) No 'good guys' in Georgia conflict http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2056 "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." – Plato
at 08:17 on August 16th, 2008
Joellerose:
Here's the real scoop and I'll use your words:
Nothing ever changes. Whenever the USA and Israel invade, plunder and murder, the right fall all over themselves spinning, revising history and making excuses.
How many deaths caused by Russian invasions and occupations over the last 8 years? How many caused by America's illegal invasions and occupations over the last 8 years? I don't even have to put the numbers as everyone who just read this knows there's no comparison in the world to the butchery committed by the USA.
So get to your ludicrous right-wing spinning! The grownups in the world find it very amusing, LOL!
at 07:13 on August 16th, 2008
moonwolf, I like this story. It's good stuff.
NEO CONS ARE SOOO FUNNY !
...they get all upset when people actually refuse to let themselves be killed and defend their families ;)
Join the clan bucko !
Mikheil Saakashvili : War Criminal A politician's hubris causes untold human sufferinghttp://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13304 "Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on." - Frank Zappa US Hypocrisy : Bush accuses Russia of 'bullying' The US president, speaking from the White House, said the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia must be respected.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2008/08/200881513335393924.html "We are watching a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog , interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane." - Jules Carlysle
at 17:30 on August 16th, 2008
Crazy Saakashvili eats his tie!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqSIXIwGLhI