What really has happened in Georgia
by independent
A short recoup of the events which have led to the current situation. 1. Supported by the U.S. government, on August 8, 2008, Georgia has unilateraly broken a 15-years old bilateral Peace Agreement (according with which Russia has maintained a peace-keeping group in the region) with the breakaway republic of South Ossetia and launched a massive rocket attack on its territory, which overnight killed almost 2,000 civilians and forced over 30,000 to flee the region into the neighboring Russia. Other military crimes perpetrated by Georgian soldiers against Ossetian civilians have been recorded. 2. Russian peace-keeping force did not retreat from the region as Georgians apparently hoped, but, according to the signed Peace Agreement, fulfilled its duties to prevent civil casualties, started responding in a military fashion, and received the additional forces to support the defensive campaign. 3. Having failed [to completely push Russian peace-keeping force out of the South Ossetia and occupy the capital of the region,] Georgia has launched a massive mass-media offense against Russia, calling for military and diplomatic help and accusing Russia of an "all-out aggression against innocent people of Georgia." The Western mass media has quickly picked the Georgian interpretation of the events (thanks to the CNN again) and immediately started misleading the global community about the nature of these events.
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by independent
A short recoup of the events which have led to the current situation. 1. Supported by the U.S. government, on August 8, 2008, Georgia has unilateraly broken a 15-years old bilateral Peace Agreement (according with which Russia has maintained a peace-keeping group in the region) with the breakaway republic of South Ossetia and launched a massive rocket attack on its territory, which overnight killed almost 2,000 civilians and forced over 30,000 to flee the region into the neighboring Russia. Other military crimes perpetrated by Georgian soldiers against Ossetian civilians have been recorded. 2. Russian peace-keeping force did not retreat from the region as Georgians apparently hoped, but, according to the signed Peace Agreement, fulfilled its duties to prevent civil casualties, started responding in a military fashion, and received the additional forces to support the defensive campaign. 3. Having failed [to completely push Russian peace-keeping force out of the South Ossetia and occupy the capital of the region,] Georgia has launched a massive mass-media offense against Russia, calling for military and diplomatic help and accusing Russia of an "all-out aggression against innocent people of Georgia." The Western mass media has quickly picked the Georgian interpretation of the events (thanks to the CNN again) and immediately started misleading the global community about the nature of these events.
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