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catman
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 Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:33 am Post subject: EU Report: Georgia started the war |
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The truth about the war between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway republic of South Ossetia in August 2008 sounds somewhat convoluted, at least as expressed in the final report of the independent EU fact-finding mission charged with establishing the causes of the conflict. "Georgian claims of a large-scale presence of Russian armed forces in South Ossetia prior to the Georgian offensive on 7/8 August could not be substantiated by the mission," reads the document, which was published Wednesday. To put it more simply: It was Georgia who started the war.
This is the conclusion that the team of European investigators, headed by the Swiss diplomat and Caucasus expert Heidi Tagliavini, have reached after spending almost a year visiting the Georgian capital Tbilisi, Moscow and the locations of the fighting in a bid to reconstruct the course of the conflict. Their findings fill some 1,000 pages.
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Yet the triumphant mood in Moscow was tinged by a hint of bitterness. "The report has a major flaw," complained Sergei Makarov, a member of the Duma for the Kremlin party United Russia and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. "It does not address the US's role in the conflict." |
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,652512,00.html |
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gakduki
Joined: 16 Jul 2009
Location: Passed out on line 2 going in circles
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This isn't news. Last time I was in Russia, the war was fresh in everyone's minds. They asked my 'Western' Opinion. I said "Georgia provoked Russia, Russia retaliated strong and hard to make an example of other people." Besides, what would USA or China do if there was a similar little problem at their border?
If Russia had started the war, they would have finished it. With the president captured dead or alive and the country under total occupation. The Georgian army was harassing and murdering people not only in the more Russian parts of the country, but also apparently the Armenian parts according to Russian news. They made sure to get rid of Armenian problem starters before they picked a fight with Russia to prevent a 'war' on two fronts. We are lied to everyday by our news and it will only get worse. NATO cannot afford to go to war with Russia, they can't even beat the Taliban. When a mosquito bites, I smack it and if you don't like that, I'll smack you too. |
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