Thread: Georgian troops to be prosecuted for their crimes in South Ossetia

Georgia is guilty of genocide - Medvedev

President Dmitry Medvedev has described Georgia's actions in the conflict zone as genocide. He has ordered Russian prosecutors to collect evidence of the crimes committed there.
”Georgia has exposed South Ossetia to a very crude and cynical aggression. People have died. Russian citizens have died, including local residents and peacekeepers. The actions of the Georgian side cannot be described as anything else but genocide.
“The information we have received suggests that horrible crimes were committed there. People were killed, burnt, run down by tanks, had their throats were cut,” Medvedev said.
The President went on to say that “the operation to restore peace will continue and those guilty will be punished”.
Earlier, after visiting a refugee camp in North Ossetia, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin also accused Georgia of genocide and said those responsible for war crimes should be prosecuted.

http://russiatoday.com/news/news/28777

Georgian troops burn South Ossetian refugees alive

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.
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.
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When will President Medvedev be attending the criminal behavior of Russina troops in Chechnya? The civilians tortured and massacred as well as the women who were raped. When will he address those crimes?

August 10, 2008, 18:13

Russian journalists beaten up in Georgia

A crew from Russia’s First TV Channel has been beaten up in the Georgian capital Tbilisi while filming a protest rally at the country's parliament building.

Reporter Maksim Bobrov said the men, wearing camouflage uniforms, “most likely represented some kind of a law enforcement body”.
”We were filming in the city centre at the parliament building where refugees from South Ossetia held their meeting”, he explained.
“We were cut short by some people who took away our camera and materials. The cameraman and the sound engineer were beaten up. We managed to get our camera back but not what we had filmed,” Bobrov said.
The journalist said: “President Saakashvili gave assurances that restrictions would not be imposed either on Georgian or foreign journalists”.

It’s also reported that in the conflict zone itself, another Russian TV-crew, belonging to the NTV channel, came under fire.
On Saturday, three journalists from the state owned Rossiya channel were wounded in shooting in South Ossetia along with a correspondent from Russia’s Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.

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Believe it or not we have access to news sources ourselves, you can
stop spamming copy/paste news items any time now.

Originally Posted by Bourne

When will President Medvedev be attending the criminal behavior of Russina troops in Chechnya? The civilians tortured and massacred as well as the women who were raped. When will he address those crimes?

Never. Why do you ask?

Originally Posted by Latherty

Never. Why do you ask?

I find it rather disengenuous that Russian troops can commit crimes and Russia takes no action but Russia makes a claim that Georgian troops have been involved in similar criminal behavior and it calls for their prosecution.

Originally Posted by Bourne

I find it rather disengenuous that Russian troops can commit crimes and Russia takes no action but Russia makes a claim that Georgian troops have been involved in similar criminal behavior and it calls for their prosecution.

Russia never bombed civilians on purpose. Georgians bombed Osetian capital and killed thousands of civilians. So, what can you say? Repeat again and again idiotic tales?

Originally Posted by Alien Traveler

Russia never bombed civilians on purpose. Georgians bombed Osetian capital and killed thousands of civilians. So, what can you say? Repeat again and again idiotic tales?

Georgian civilians killed by russian bomb in Gori
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=user&v=9kFo_4RdBIQ

I thought the Russians were just there to push Georgians out of Ossetia?

Georgia said a Russian air raid had "completely devastated" the Black Sea port of Poti in attacks that the country's UN ambassador likened to "a full-scale military invasion"Georgia said a Russian air raid had "completely devastated" the Black Sea port of Poti in attacks that the country's UN ambassador likened to "a full-scale military invasion"

Georgians to Leave South Ossetia as Focus Shifts to Black Sea | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 10.08.2008

Originally Posted by Alien Traveler

Russia never bombed civilians on purpose. Georgians bombed Osetian capital and killed thousands of civilians. So, what can you say? Repeat again and again idiotic tales?

It seems like there are some pro-Bush, pro-American Empire posters here.

Georgia is America's ally, so it hurts to know the truth to these pro-neo-con posters, so all they can to do is try to change the subject or post idiotic messages.


But remember that America is supporting Georgia, theorefore America is guilty of Georgia's crimes.

Originally Posted by bla bla

Georgian civilians killed by russian bomb in Gori
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=user&v=9kFo_4RdBIQ

I thought the Russians were just there to push Georgians out of Ossetia?

Have you ever heard about war in Iraq?
Or about Kosovo?