Posted on 08/18/2008 12:11:05 AM PDT by Schnucki
“The soldiers told us they had an order from Putin - leave or be killed.” Manana Dioshvili showed no emotion as she described how Russian troops forced her to flee her home. Her former neighbours nodded in agreement, huddled together in a kindergarten whose windows had been blown out by a Russian bomb.
“That's how they explained themselves to us,” she recalled of the moment they fled the ethnic Georgian village of Kurta, near the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali.
“They said, ‘Putin has given us an order that everyone must be either shot or forced to leave'. They told us we should ask the Americans for help now because they would kill us if we stayed.”
Vardo Babutidze, 79, was not lucky enough to be visited by Russian soldiers. Her husband Georgi, 85, was shot twice through the chest by an Ossetian paramilitary who came to their house to demand weapons.
“We didn't have any guns, so he shot Georgi in front of me without saying a word,” she said. “A neighbour helped me to bury him in our garden and then I just fled.”
Manana Galigashvili, 53, whose husband Andrei stared vacantly from a bed behind her, said that Ossetian soldiers had returned later and torched the house. They, too, had left after a soldier threatened to slit their throats.
Frightened refugees told similar stories all over the city of Gori yesterday as the Russian army extended its reach deep into Georgian territory despite a ceasefire agreement signed by President Medvedev that requires them to withdraw.
Troops and tanks moved to within 25 miles (40km) of the capital, Tbilisi, setting up roadblocks and digging in defensive positions in the hills above the highway. A line of tanks faced towards Tbilisi outside the village of Kaspi, a day after
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Do you plan on starting soon?
Its time to lock you up in the loony house.
Nor can I. For Putin to believe that recent wealth from the only commodity they have in surplus somehow insulates Russia from reprisals is stupid and wrongheaded. They have blown their opportunity to join, in a productive way, the community of civilized nations.
Russia has become a pariah.
“Do you plan on starting soon?”
heh...
On your mother... =P
Hows that for asinine pointless comments?
“Its time to lock you up in the loony house.”
Meh...
I guess...
Not sure whats passing for “sanity” now is something Ill ever be down with. You know.. the whole appease the aggressive nation that invades the free country thing..
Nope, dont get it.
NATO and Bush will do nothing. Nothing at all.
Putin will do whatever he pleases, and nobody will have the spine to stop him.
They'll try to bore him to death with blabber.
It's sickening to me to see how much President Bush looks like Clinton when he holds a presser to shake his finger and speak strong words into the camera... and that's all.
Nothing to follow.
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