Sunday, August 17, 2008

South Ossetia Conflict

It is a lot of lie about this war. Maybe even more then about war in Iraq.
Basically what people knows about conflict is : Russia attacked democratic Georgia...

Fact that Russia has signed peacemaking contract with Georgia and simply was following obligation during last 18 years noone remember in western media. Same obligations was on Georgian side but they numerously violated them.

Any way on some Russian forum I read comments of soldier who was being there on Russian Army side. I try to make close translation:

Our man just came from Ossetia. His face was green despite he was in Afghanistan, being twice in Chechnya. He drunk bottle of whiskey but remain sober after.
Then he told us about war over there:
I never seen anything close to that. Lets not speak about nationalities. Everything you can see on TV (Russian TV mentions 2000 peaceful Ossetia people died from Georgian Blitzkrieg) is not even half of whats going on there.
From Georgia side were lots of mercenaries, all kind of. What they were doing were unimaginable. Little children came to cars, mercenaries collected them and start .... slaughter them. Mothers came out basement rush after them. Georgian mercenaries start putting organs and fragments of bodies of their babies in to their mouthes. Men and young boys were killed indiscriminately. Others - old people, women, children were collected in Church and burned. (Georgian same Christians as Ossetia people), in attempt to escape, were executed by shooting. Young women were raped. then slaughter to pieces, alive.
(Since people of Tzhinvali were hiding in basements after town was devastated). They knocking in basements. Were talking on Ossetin language. Some opening doors. In best case they just executed them by shooting or thrown hand grenade. Children were slaughtered in front of mothers, mothers were slaughtered in front of children and old people. To keep men clam shoot through their hands or just cut off.

Georgian peace keepers were slaughter and killing wounded people when they were escaping from Tzhinvali, before start fire (of Russian Army probably).

Alot of things like this happen there.

Version of Georgian assault as genocide of Ossetin people - confirmed. (On captured Georgians military documents - operation mentioned as "Clean field")

How all this facts will be used we never know. Our looses unknown (of Russian Army). We cannot find their bodies (of Russian peace keepers). They can be captured can be ... But we can find very few alive people who were doing peace keeping at outstanding posts (they must be killed in first minutes of assault without even chance for backfire), or who were in Tzhinvali base. Maybe they are in hospitals, no statistics yet.

In incoming Army not much causalities ( regular Russian army came to stop Georgian assault) maybe its sounds cynical but military people should understand me. Less then expected.

Civilians are still counting. How many under obstruction, or already buried. How many captured by Georgians? Lots of questions without answers. But I very doubt official 2000. In sense that its higher in few times.

Resume: Everything what u seen on TV (Russian) thruth, but we have alot to learn about this. Maybe we will.

Right now Tzhinvali is clearing from corpses. Corpses mostly unidentified buried altogether. Coffins not for them. Maybe for those were lucky identified by relatives. For others tarpaulin and chlorine,

War as usual.




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