Ukraine ‘continues to arm Georgia’

A parliamentary investigation in Ukraine has found that the country supplied weapons to Georgia prior to Tbilisi's attack on South Ossetia. The investigators say the country now bears a moral responsibility for what happened in South Ossetia.

Ukrainian legislators begin that Kiev supplied weapons that outweighed Georgia's defence needs.

The delving was accomplished afterwards letters emerged that Ukraine delivered accoutrements to Georgia afore the invasion.

On Monday, associates the agency investigating accoutrements food to Georgia accustomed in Tskhinval, the basic of South Ossetia, area they advised devastated locations of the city.

The arch of the Accompaniment Rada’s commission, Valery Konovalyuk, said board ”pushed for a adjournment on weapons food to Georgia to be imposed.

“But the administration in Ukraine does aggregate to abide sending accoutrements to Georgia. This causes affair because it affects the bearings in the arena and can advance to new casualties.”

According Konovalyuk, Ukraine continues to accumulation accoutrements to Georgia.

"The agency has advice that on September 22, armament and accoutrements systems were delivered to Georgia's anchorage of Batumi from Ukraine's seaports, bearded as altruistic assistance," he said.

However, a account issued by the National Security and Defence Board in Ukraine acicular out that it was not adjoin all-embracing law to accumulation Georgia with weapons. “Georgia was not and is not beneath sanctions or embargo of the U.N. Security Council, the OSCE, the European Union or added all-embracing organizations," the account said.

The board aswell said that Ukraine co-operated with Georgia actually transparently, accouterment all advice about its accoutrements exports to the U.N. Register and added all-embracing agencies.

But according to Konovalyuk, the Accompaniment Rada’s agency begin no traces of added than $US 1 billion accustomed from accoutrements sales. He said that over the endure three years Ukraine had awash $US 2 billion account of arms, while alone $US 840 actor accomplished the accompaniment budget.

The five-day armed battle in aboriginal August took hundreds of lives, which were mostly civilian.

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That’s the name of a new book dedicated to the victims of the Georgian aggression on August 7-12 containing documents and photographs, as well as survivors’ testimonies.

The war crimes of Saakashvili’s army in South Ossetia claimed the lives of hundreds of people. Both law enforcement bodies and non-governmental organisations are now investigating circumstances in which those civilians died. Soprotivleniye (which stands for ‘resistance’ in Russian) was one of the first to take up the job. Already on August 15 psychologists filed out to Russia’s Rostov region to assist refugees from South Ossetia. At this time a hot line was also launched for the victims of the conflict.

“We believe that in the days of the Georgian aggression European media were flooded with deceptive information about what was going on in the conflict zone,” said the head of the Public Committee Olga Kostina. “Now the world community has got access to photo and video and other documents which prove that Georgian soldiers in South Ossetia were actually committing genocide against its people.

The publication of the book “South Ossetia: Chronicle of contract murder” is another step in the public investigation of crimes in South Ossetia.

The album contains three chapters: “Crimes”, “Victims”, “Witnesses”. The first chapter briefly presents historical background of Georgia-South Ossetia relations and chronicles events preceding and following August 8. The second chapter features testimonies of people who lived through the horrors of five-day war. The third chapter is dedicated to testimonies of witnesses’– journalists, doctors, clerics.

A considerable edition of the book was published in English. The Public Committee believes that the international community must know about inhumane actions of the Georgian leadership. Next week at a PACE session the committee will present their report on the events in South Ossetia and the book “South Ossetia: Chronicle of Contract Murder”.

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Georgia, Ossetia and Public Opinion

If the people of the world are being asked to judge the actions of the Russian Federation through press reports based on the information that is presented to them, then it would be a good idea to begin from a viewpoint whereby the international media presents the truth and not some half-baked subjective attempt to package the story in a way that is hostile to Moscow.

For a start, Moscow has been careful to inform the world media through a tireless campaign from its press attaches at its Embassies, whereby the Russian Foreign Ministry has provided detailed information as to Moscow’s constant attempts to broker a peace deal in South Ossetia, constantly stressing the need to satisfy both Tblissi (Georgia) and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia). Where has this information appeared in a single western news outlet? It has been systematically ignored in a massive attempt at misinformation.

Secondly, hours after it announced a ceasefire, Georgia instructed its peacekeeping forces to attack the Russian peacekeepers in the area, an act which raises questions as to the sanity of Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili and more seriously, to the intentions of Washington, which along with Tel Aviv, has hundreds of military advisors supporting the Georgian armed forces. How could this attack not have received approval from the puppet-master who pulls Saakashvili’s strings?

Russia’s actions before the conflict broke out were under the sphere of a legitimate and legally backed peacekeeping force and its reaction to this cowardly act of murder by the Georgian armed forces continues to be that of a peace-keeper, while at the same time providing humanitarian aid for the growing number of refugees. Hospitals have been set up and Moscow has approved billions of RUR for a rebuilding fund, given that the Georgia military exacted tremendous damage on residential areas in Tskhinvali and the surrounding area.

Let the people of the world judge the actions for what they are, not what they are wrongly reported as being. When President Bush condemned Moscow’s reaction is unacceptable, was he then giving his tacit support to the acts of ethnic cleansing carried out by Georgian troops in the early hours of their cowardly back-stabbing attack under cover of night and salvoes of missiles aimed at the heart of civilian residential areas in the capital?

When President Bush and Secretary of State Rice condemn Moscow, are they then giving their approval to the murder of 2.000 civilians by Tblissi and the internal dislocation of 40.000 others? Do they then approve of Tblissi’s announcing a ceasefire and then launching a massive attack against civilians?

Given their track record, what with the acts of torture by the CIA, the concentration camp at Guantanamo, the illegal act of butchery in Iraq, Lynndie England and her friends "just having fun" torturing people at Abu Ghraib, it would not be in the least surprising that in condemning Moscow, Bush and Rice do give their approval to ethnic cleansing against Russians. After all, what to expect from this pair and their regime?

However, one can only hope that someone in Washington has a brain and that this brain sees very clearly the situation for what it is, namely a very ugly and cowardly attack by a frustrated Tblissi, using military forces against civilians, then attacking ambulances and doctors as they came to help the victims, and documented cases of war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated by Georgia’s armed forces.

Let the people of the world judge events based on this true version of events, not the nonsense being reported in a biased and unfree western press. The fact of the matter is that Moscow is right and has done everything it possibly could to avoid conflict. The ones who started it were the Georgians, who now go whining to NATO.

It's America's fault - US citizen in the conflict zone

An American man living in South Ossetia says U.S. and Georgian leaders are responsible for the violence that has killed 2,000 people in the region. Joe Mestas, who witnessed days of shelling, told RT that Washington will have to answer for the violence.

“I thought that since U.S. is supporting Georgia there would be some control over the situation in South Ossetia and that there would be a peaceful solution to the conflict. But what is happening there now it’s not just war, but war crimes. George Bush and [Georgian president] Mikhail Saakashvili should answer to the crimes that are being committed – the killing of innocent people, running over by tanks of children and women, throwing grenades into cellars where people are hiding,” Joe Mestas said.

“The war is when military fight against military. But the Georgian army is killing innocent civilians. This is genocide,” he added.
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USA approves Georgia’s aggression against South Ossetia and Russia

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US presidential runoff John McCain said that Russia should not interfere in the conflict in South Ossetia. The pro-Georgian propaganda in the US media testifies to the same opinion. It brings up the idea that the Georgian aggression against the unrecognized republic of South Ossetia has been coordinated with the US administration. Nevertheless, all arguments of US politicians and experts (Pravda.ru interviewed some of them) do not withstand any criticism.

“We must immediately call a meeting of the NATO Council to estimate Georgia’s security and consider the measures, which NATO may take to stabilize the highly dangerous situation,” John McCain said.

“The international community needs to deploy independent and neutral peacemaking forces in South Ossetia. Russia must immediately and unconditionally cease its military operations and withdraw troops from the sovereign territory of Georgia,” McCain believes.

Ariel Cohen, a well-known US specialist on the Soviet Union, a Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, stated that Russia was planning the incursion for months and that it was intended to demonstrate its hegemony over Eastern Europe, push Mr. Saakashvili from power in Georgia and not to let Georgia become a NATO member.

Apparently, McCain and other US experts believe that the extermination of thousands of innocent people and the destruction of their houses can be referred to as the retrieval of the territorial integrity.

It is worthy of note that Russia’s Air Force already prevented Georgia’s aggression against South Ossetia a month ago. The situation aggravated soon after Condoleezza Rice’s visit to Georgia. It is not ruled out that Ms. Rice okayed the beginning of the war in the region on behalf of the US administration.

Taking McCain’s remarks into consideration, one shall assume that the USA has provided certain guarantees to Georgia. The Georgian troops would not have opened fire on Russian peacemakers otherwise. Such battles inevitably lead to a war against Russia. Georgia would not dare to proceed so alone, without the support from the West. Furthermore, Georgia asked the USA to withdraw its contingent from Iraq to redeploy the military men to South Ossetia.

The evidence to proof the USA’s hand behind the Georgian aggression against South Ossetia can be found in Western media. Western news agencies, Reuters, for example, have been distributing countless photographs depicting Russia’s supposed atrocities in Georgia. Such photos along with adequate headlines can be found in practically all US newspapers (The New York Times is the best example for it). All of them unanimously accuse Russia of aggression against Georgia, but they do not say a word about Georgia’s actions against civilians in S. Ossetia.

Gates uses the term ‘long war’ introduced by his predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld. The official uses the term to assimilate the war against terrorism to Soviet communism and German Nazism. Gates turned down the idea of giving the first priority to the preventive use of military force. He urges the current and the future US administration to cooperate with other countries to exterminate terrorism and conditions that lead to its development.


“The use of force plays a role but may be less important than measures to promote local participation in government and economic programs to spur development, as well as efforts to understand and address the grievances that often lie at the heart of insurgencies," the document said.

To put it in a nutshell, Robert Gates believes that the USA should wage war by proxy.

The national defense strategy, which US Defense Secretary submits to the Senate and the president of the United States once in two years, mirrors the evolution of USA’s degrading defense capabilities. The previous concepts expressed the nation’s readiness to struggle against international terrorism in any part of the world. The “success” of such struggle has undoubtedly undermined the reputation of the White House both inside and outside the United States, along with the reputation of NATO members which sent their military contingents to Iraq and Afghanistan. It is time for the USA to call a spade a spade.

When a military report names a country and defines it as a potential foe, one should read this as ‘enemy.’ Therefore, the USA has officially named Russia and China its official enemies. It goes without saying that the USA is not going to wage war against these two countries. It is hard to imagine what would happen to the US Army if the US administration declared war on China with and its 1.5-billion-strong population. To crown it all, Russia and China possess nuclear weapons. However, an official acknowledgment of China and Russia as USA’s enemies will give the USA an opportunity to deploy radar stations and missile defense systems anywhere in the world. Gates’s strategy is an unofficial declaration of war.

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The USA’s economic state leaves much to be desired too. The opium war, which the nation unleashed in Afghanistan, can serve the best proof for that. Washington is unable to cover the military spending at the expense of its own industry. England used to succeed in the solution of its financial problems with the help of opium and opium wars in China.

If the USA is deprived of this source of income, the country will lack funds for unleashing local conflicts all over the world and maintaining the minimal battling capacity of its own army.

It is not ruled out that the new defense strategy of the United States is just another attempt of the country to preserve its image of world’s only superpower. In addition, the concept may also allow not to show any reaction to Russia’s initiatives. The USA simply declares that it can cope with Russia and China at once and thus creates a false impression of the world leader.

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