Georgia Invades South Ossetia, Embarking on a Path of Aggression

The situation in the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict came under discussion at the UN Security Council. The emergency session was initiated by Russia after Georgia attacked South Ossetia. Georgia started this war in South Ossetia. Last night, the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, and the surrounding villages were subjected to intense artillery fire. Involved in the assault were aircraft, tanks, and infantry troops. There were victims among the population. On Friday morning, the shelling of Tskhinvali resumed with greater force. Brigadier General Mamuka Kurashvili of the United Staff of Georgian armed forces described the hostilities as “measures to restore constitutional law and order in the part of the Tskhinvali region which was not controlled by the country’s authorities”. He did not mention, however, that those measures were taken in violation of Tbilisi’s earlier pledges and the principle of the Olympic truce.

Yuri Popov, the Co-chairman of the Russian part of the Mixed Control Commission on a peace settlement of the conflict in South Ossetia said that the recent events shed light on Georgia’s policy. “It is absolutely clear why, for quite a long period of time, Tbilisi shunned concluding binding and legal agreements with South Ossetia and Abkhazia to abjure force [in the settlement of these disputes]. Still, there is enough time to prevent mass bloodshed and new victims amongst civilians. We are also deeply concerned about the fate of the Russian peacekeepers in the conflict zone. The Georgian leadership must change its mind and return to civilised means to resolve the complex questions involved in this matter.”

World leaders are expected to provide an adequate assessment of the current situation in Georgia and not remain neutral in an affair affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. The Georgian-Ossetian conflict refers to an ethno-political conflict in Georgia`s former autonomous region of South Ossetia, which evolved in 1989 and developed into a civil war in 1991-1992 at the time of the break-up of the former Soviet Union. The war was mainly due to attempts by newly-independent Georgia to crush autonomy in the region. Despite a declared ceasefire and numerous peace efforts, the conflict remains unresolved, minor armed incidents persist, and a large part of the region is still out of control of the central Georgian government. The situation remains unresolved because Georgia refuses to negotiate, but wishes to use force to impose its will on Ossetia. This latest outbreak of violence is, however, the most dangerous to date.

8 August 2008

Yevgeny Kryshkin

Voice of Russia World Service

http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=rus&q=79508&cid=19&p=08.08.2008

Editor’s Note:

This is reprehensible and nasty, given that Georgia announced a unilateral cease-fire on Thursday. This is the sort of treachery that Washington approves of; it shows for all but the slow learners that Bush and Rice are irresponsible warmongers, unafraid of the consequences of their actions. The Georgian clique is deeply in hock to Washington, however, there is going to be a silver lining in all of this. The Georgian leadership shall be overthrown by the Georgians themselves for a botched war after the Russians defeat them. The US has nothing in its store-cupboard to help the Georgians. The fact that the Georgians launched this war on the first day of the Olympics makes for a double enormity. It also puts a lie to George Bush’s boast before the US Olympic team that the “US was the best country in the world”.

Mr Bush, “the best country in the world” does not go about stirring up war! The US did not do this prior to 1991, and it should stop NOW. The blood of all the innocents in this war is on your hands, and nothing save public repentance shall wash it away. Mr Bush knew of this when he addressed the US athletes in Beijing, which reveals him to be an amoral and inhuman monster worthy to sit in the company of Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Mao, and Pol Pot. Reflect on the fact that a majority of Americans rejected him the first time around, and he won the White House by a legal maneouvre.

These events make me deeply ashamed to be a US citizen. I reflect on the recent death of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and realise that the USA that sheltered him is not the USA of today, a bloodthirsty Moloch demanding worship and human sacrifice from the entire world. May God have mercy on us. We deserve divine chastisement for such bloodthirstiness. The USA is no longer the standard-bearer of freedom. It is a spoilt child throwing dangerous temper tantrums throughout the world. Just as Hitler needed to be stopped, so, too, the American neocons must be stopped before they harvest more innocent victims.

Dear God, please defeat my country, to teach it humility. Teach it now, before it is too late.

BMD