Georgian captives paraded in streets

News.com.au ^ | August 16, 2008

[Schnucki]

DOZENS of haggard Georgian captives were marched through the rebel city of South Ossetia today as separatists called on Tbilisi to recover the rotting corpses of its soldiers. The mostly elderly men - apparently all civilians - walked with their heads bowed and their hands behind their backs, escorted by armed guards.

Locals stopped to take pictures on their mobile phones. Some pointed and laughed as the detainees marched through Tskhinvali.

One woman said: "Those are the prisoners? But they're just old men!"

Seventeen of the men were brought to the courtyard of the separatist territory's defence ministry to sweep up shards of glass and rubble from the fierce fighting between Georgian forces against Russian troops and rebels.

Thirty others were brought to a base on the northern edge of the city, walking through clouds of dust as Russian military helicopters flew low overhead. They were taken to a warehouse to unload food aid for local people.

"If your house had been destroyed by Georgians, if you were left with just the clothes on your back, wouldn't you do the same?" said one drunk South Ossetian militiaman, referring to the detention of the Georgians.

"They destroyed Ossetian villages. Why shouldn't we destroy theirs?"

The captive men were later seen sweeping city streets surrounded by guards in what appeared a conscious effort to humiliate them.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Isn’t this a violation of the Geneva Convention and therefore, “unconstitutional?” Where the hell is the U.S. Supreme Court?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Exactly.

[Orange1998]

Geneva Convention for humiliation. Whats next putting underwear over their head.

[Jackson57]

Where is A.N.S.W.E.R.??? Where is the international outrage????

[SolidWood]

The mostly elderly (Georgian) men - apparently all civilians - walked with their heads bowed and their hands behind their backs, escorted by armed guards.

Locals stopped to take pictures on their mobile phones. Some pointed and laughed as the detainees marched through Tskhinvali.

Jews "leaving" the town of Regensburg, guarded by Nazis, on their march to the Dachau camp.

Seventeen of the men were brought to the courtyard of the separatist territory's defence ministry to sweep up shards of glass and rubble. The captive men were later seen sweeping city streets surrounded by guards in what appeared a conscious effort to humiliate them.

Jews scrubbing the streets of Vienna after the Anschluss of Austria under the jeers and laughter of Nazis.

[SolidWood]

History repeating itself.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Hope and Change!

[MarMema]

HERE IS THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE

"I have only the best things to say about the way I have been treated."

[Big Horn]

Where is the U.N.?

[Tailgunner Joe]

“Work will make you free...”

[indcons]

This action is clearly one among many war crimes.