Kokoity said: After the fighting in the city we found several bodies of citizens of the Baltic states and Ukraine. Later on I was informed that the bodies of several black men were found at the scene of a battle near school number 12".
He also said some corpses had narrow eyes, typical of people of Asian origin.
South Ossetian officials say more than 2,000 of their civilians were killed in the attack. Georgia disputes this figure.
The Russian envoy in South Ossetia, Dmitry Medoyev, says the scene in Tskhinvali is horrific.
The town looks like Stalingrad during WW2, with fallen trees, power lines, burnt Georgian tanks all over the streets. The dead bodies of Georgian soldiers are lying everywhere, Medoyev said.
He also confirmed the South Ossetian Presidents claim that foreign mercenaries took part in the onslaught.
In yesterdays attack, the advancing tanks were supposedly crewed by Ukrainians. Two unidentified bodies found today are said to have black skin. Possibly they are Americans but we cant say for sure yet. We will be able to publish the official conclusions after carrying out special tests, Medoyev said. One of the bodies on the streets of South Ossetian capital http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/28765
I guess you are more than right with your assumption that this is race-baiting for the russian ultra-nationalists.
They have "special tests" that identify Americans? Wonder if they only work on blacks.
We still have a few troops in Georgia for training, they're said to be "out of the way", here's hoping they're well.