Appalling.
If Russia can defend its citizens, why cant Georgia defend its citizens?... This battle isn’t over yet
Remember what we are being told a hundred times a day.
This would not be happening if only the free people of the West had gone along with it in Kosovo.
Despite the televised order by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Russia launched an offensive Tuesday in the Kodori Gorge, the only part of the breakaway region of Abkhazia still under Georgian control, sending in tanks, armored personnel carriers and artillery.
And hours before the order, Russian jets bombed the crossroads city of Gori, near the separatist region of South Ossetia. Gori’s post office and university were burning Tuesday, but the city was all but deserted after most remaining residents and Georgian soldiers fled Monday ahead of a feared Russian onslaught.
In Moscow, Medvedev said Georgia had been punished enough for its attack on South Ossetia. Georgia launched an offensive late Thursday to regain control over the separatist province, which has close ties to Russia.
Many Georgians also have been killed in the fighting and on Tuesday, the Georgian security council said it filed a lawsuit in the International Court of Justice for alleged ethnic cleansing. The overall death toll was expected to rise because large areas of Georgia were still too dangerous for journalists to enter and see the true scope of the damage.
“It feels like an annexed country,” said Lasha Margiana, the local administrator in one of the villages in the Kodori Gorge, where fleeing Georgians said the entire population had abandoned their homes.
In villages around the South Ossetian provincial capital, separatist fighters reportedly were setting fire to Georgian houses and searching for hidden Georgian fighters.
An AP photographer in the village of Ruisi near South Ossetia saw fresh damage from a Russian air raid that locals said came just 30 minutes before Medvedev’s televised statement.
Residents said three villagers were killed and another five wounded when a Russian warplane raided the village. One slain victim, 77-year old Amiran Vardzelashvili, was struck by a fragment in the heart while was working in a field.
The Georgian government said another nearby village, Sakorinto, also was bombed after Medvedev announcing a halt to fighting, as was an ambulance in the Black Sea province of Adzharia.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008107643_webgeorgia12.html
Over 200 million dead dumbass Russians last century and they still haven’t learned their lesson!
Yeah...just swallow the Sashkavili propaganda without any evidence whatsoever.
Who is he?
Minister 2003 – 2004
Open Society Georgia Foundation (Soros Foundation)
Tbilisi, Georgia
We should supply our most cutting edge weaponry to Georgia.
Get some Georgian pilots over here and train them in the old Stealth fighters that we are putting in mothballs. Give them access to satellite data. Train and equip 10,000 snipers. Lots of anti-tank mines and cluster munitions. Remotely piloted vehicles loaded with missiles so they can shoot Russkies from a bunker far away.
A nation of just a few million can be fearsome on the battlefield...take Israel for instance.
This seems to be what we are intentionally not being told about the conflict if it is the case.