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Refugees accuse Russia of ethnic cleansing
Kuala Lumpur News.Net
Thursday 28th August, 2008
Russian-backed paramilitaries are ethnically cleansing villages on Georgian soil, The Times has quoted refugees and officials, as saying.
According to eyewitness reports, South Ossetian militiamen have torched houses, beaten elderly people and even murdered civilians in the lawless buffer zone set up by the Russian Army just north of Gori.
The violence, close to the border with the breakaway republic recognized by Russia this week as independent, has prompted a new wave of refugees into Gori, 40 miles north of Tbilisi.
People who had started to return to their villages in the area are now fleeing for a second time, joined by many elderly people who had refused to leave their homes when the Russians invaded two weeks ago.
Most gathered yesterday at the feet of a giant statue of Josef Stalin, Gori's infamous native son, to register with the local authorities and the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, for emergency supplies and accommodation in three tent cities being built near a football stadium.
Other refugees were clustered in the shabby city hall, trying to glean news of relatives still inside the buffer zone.
The UNHCR has voiced its concern about reports of "new forcible displacement caused by marauding militias north of Gori near the boundary with South Ossetia".
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Anonymous
08-28-08, 07:35 AM |
Refugees accuse Russia of ethnic cleansing
Here we go again. Before the real war, foot soldiers now come out to spread lies to gain the moral highground. Disgusting.
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Anonymous
08-28-08, 11:29 AM |
The latest
Here is contradicting story from the ground, so please read it and make your own decisions about the truth:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080825/wl_csm/otour
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