genocide & elections

Sem · 08-22-2008, 10:51 AM

The government of the USA has not declared on August, 13th mourning on victims of a genocide in South Ossetia, how the Europe because it supports terrorist Saakashvili and a genocide? You will not be assured that results of presidential elections of the USA are forged?

waltky · 09-12-2008, 06:00 AM

Human rights a complex situation in Ossetia...

Human Rights Activists Paint Complex Picture in South Ossetia
11 September 2008 - An independent human rights monitoring mission in South Ossetia paints a complex picture of propaganda, suffering, and ongoing threats to civilians in the breakaway region of Georgia.

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On September 8, the independent Russian human rights organization "Memorial," and the Moscow Branch of Human Rights Watch concluded a six-day visit to Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, and number of Ossetian, Georgian, and mixed villages in the breakaway region of Georgia. Speaking at a news conference in the Russian capital, representatives of the two organizations said the situation in the area is not as simple as presented by propagandists on either side of the conflict.

The activists note a discrepancy between some official Russian and South Ossetian claims of 2,000 war dead and a figure of 137 fatalities provided by Investigative Committee in the Russian Prosecutor's office. They say attempts to confirm a number was impossible, as one government committee referred them to another committee, which referred them back to the first. There was also no evidence of thousands dead based on visits to local hospitals and graveyards.

Memorial representative Alexander Cherkasov also rejects as propaganda a story alleging Georgians herded residents of one village into a church and burned them inside. Cherkasov says the human rights monitors went to that village and it turns out that nobody knew about the alleged atrocity. He says villagers suggested perhaps it occurred elsewhere.

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