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"The Geogrians came in and killed everyone"
according to Leyla Bessateva in todays FT which consistently portrays a grimmer picture of the conflict there than does the Times.
Today ,under the headline Refugees tell a different story of six-day conflict
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Catherine Belton wrote "
The Ossetians who have fled north to the Alagir camp tell a very different story to those who view of the events of last week as Georgia’s plucky struggle.
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Bessateva- an Ossetian refuge- for example continued
“They burned all the houses and they even set fire to the school and the hospital”
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Bessateva for example continued “They burned all the houses and they even set fire to the school and the hospital”
Belton’s reports that “after days of confrontations involving small arms between separatist South Ossetians and Georgian troops,Tiblisi then unleashed tanks and heavy weapons in attempting to seize Tskhinvali.
While also reporting the “heavy civilian casualties incurred when Russia bombed…Gori”.
But compared to the Times more of her emphasis is on the Georgian Army’s actions ,writing that “Anna Neistat , a researcher for Human Rights Watch said yesterday that evidence was mounting that most of the destruction of Tskhinvali was caused by Georgians”. Then follows that with a paragraph of the Georgians saying the opposite
It's possible that the Administration is right
in explaining this conflict as being due to
Putin's unwillingness to have a democratic country on his border ( other than Finland?)
Another explanation is "The Georgians came in and they killed everyone.
August 16, 2008 5:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you flavius. The last couple of weeks have given us another illustration of the near absolute, and very dangerous, incompetence of our media here in the United States. They are a bunch of brainless and uneducated twits who reposed to whatever crisis comes down by simply interviewing and and relaying the opinions of the first expert - i.e. lobbyist and shill - they come across. They are nothing but megaphones for propagandists.
August 16, 2008 6:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, the MSM seems to have learned nothing from its failure to challenge the Administration's sales campaign for the Iraq War.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice I must be the MSM,
August 17, 2008 3:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
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