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2008-08-16 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Georgian President: Russian barbarians plotted invasion, occupation for months

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Posted by Fred 2008-08-16 00:26|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 And how long did he plan his indiscriminate bombing of civilians? He expected them to flee the country and enable completion of his "Georgia for Georgians" policy. That is ethnic cleansing.

Posted by McZoid 2008-08-16 01:32|| 2008-08-16 01:32|| Front Page Top

#2 500,000 Georgians were ethnically cleansed from Abkhazia and S Ossetia during 1991-1992. About 30,000 Georgians were killed. But, that seems to be just peachy with you.

Ossetian goons were raiding Georgian territory for months, prior to the current conflict. But, that seems to be just peachy with you.

Reports form non-Russian, independent sources indicate that there were basically two targets of Georgian barrage: A) The Tskhinvali administrative center and a bridge on then northern accee to the town. There was little damage to residenhtial areas beside shattered glass.

The chief of Tskhinvali hospital gave the casualty count on 8/9: 47 dead and 278 tretaed for various ninjuries. He did not state what portion was civilian and what military/paramilitary.

You are full of shit.

Posted by Spike Uniter 2008-08-16 02:47|| 2008-08-16 02:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Russian video with rocket organs blazing

Posted by 3dc 2008-08-16 02:56|| 2008-08-16 02:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Huh? The civil war was fought between ethnic cleansing nationalists - "Georgia for Georgians" - and accomodationists with Russia. The Georgian victor - Shevardnadze - was the last Foreign Minister of the USSR. There was a period of productive peace until the neo-nationalists revived the agitation in 2004.

Google "Gamsakhurdia" if you think the nationalists are like the Hungarian Revolutionaries of 1956.

Posted by McZoid 2008-08-16 06:07|| 2008-08-16 06:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Zoid, about a dozen years prior 2004, a major ethnic cleansing campaign was in progress. The victims, for the most part, were ethnic Georgians. The figures were not negligible--half a million displaced and thousands dead. It is not that a long time that people forget.

I did not forget 1968 invasion and consequent occupation of Czechoslovkia and that is 40 years ago. Despite being now on the other side of the globe, I can recall it as if it were today. I did not blame Russians, I blamed their government, just to make it clear. Since then, I never had any reason to trust them. At all.

But if, for example, I saw a dude across a field that murdered my family 12 years ago, dunno, I would be hard pressed not to act upon my darker instincts. It may be even difficult avoiding dark impulses when seeing just his cousins.

I am a very peaceful guy... but it is possible that I would kill the sonsofbitches.

Posted by Spike Uniter 2008-08-16 19:32|| 2008-08-16 19:32|| Front Page Top

#6 And how long did he plan his indiscriminate bombing of civilians?

Signs of Ethnic Attacks in Georgia Conflict
The reports findings also seemed to indicate that early Russian accounts of casualties, which in the first days of fighting reached 2,000, were far too high. In Tskhinvali , where the heaviest fighting took place, the local hospital received 44 corpses and 273 wounded people from Aug. 6, after clashes between separatists and Georgians, to Aug. 12, the report said, citing a doctor.

The report quoted the doctor as saying that the majority of the wounded were affiliated with the military, although it was not clear if he meant the Russian or Georgian armies or Ossetian fighters. As of Aug. 13, none of the wounded remained in the hospital, the report said. Many were transferred to mobile hospitals in the Russian Emergencies Ministry.

Hook, line and sinker McZoid.

Posted by ed 2008-08-16 19:53|| 2008-08-16 19:53|| Front Page Top

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