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Ossetia Peace Keeping?

August 9, 2008

Don’t be fooled that while Putin is in China that he’s not behind the bombings in Georgia. Putin knows and Putin is excited about some power-mongering. He’s learned from George W. The Georgian army deployed into South Ossetia ostensibly in order to “reinstate the rule of law and to destroy criminal elements”. But President Mikhail Saakashvili says that Russia is intervening in the struggle. Can you imagine that!

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Russia bombed the Vaziani airbase and Russian tanks are said to have rolled into the South Ossetian capital Tchinvali. Officially Russian units are in the area as peacekeepers. Peace you say? What’s all that noise that sounds like bombds?

Russia sent columns of tanks and reportedly bombed Georgian air bases Friday after Georgia launched a major military offensive Friday to retake the breakaway province of South Ossetia, threatening to ignite a broader conflict. Hundreds of civilians were reported dead in the worst outbreak of hostilities since the province won defacto independence in a war against Georgia that ended in 1992. Witnesses said the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali was devastated.

This is peace keeping?

Georgian soldiers are reportedly receiving air support from five bombers. The Georgian army is targeting both ‘their own’ South Ossetian villages and Russian peacekeepers. South Ossetian separatist leader Eduard Kokoity says hundreds of civilians have been killed in the fighting.

The UN Security Council discussed the situation in an emergency session on Friday. Just before the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on the fwarring parties to agree a ceasefire. Similar appeals were issued by the European Union and NATO.

South Ossetia declared independence in the early 1990s after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Since then, there have been skirmishes between the ethnic South Ossetians and Georgians who live throughout the region. Most of South Ossetia’s 70,000 inhabitants now have Russian passports. When he took office in 2004, President Saakashvili swore that he would restore Georgia’s authority over the separatist regions of Adzharia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. So far only Adzharia has been brought back into the fold.

Now we have a real situation going on and who knows where it might lead?

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Daily Commentary 

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One Response to “Ossetia Peace Keeping?”

  1. Universal Interpenetration on August 16th, 2008 10:32 pm

    […] need to elevate our attention from what Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. What’s going on in Georgia and South Ossetia are important, and Iraq must be dealt with but there are much bigger fish to fry and we need people […]

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