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Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia On 16 August 2008 at approximately 4 p.m. local time, armed gangs of the Abkhazian separatist regime together with units of the Russian regular army shifted the administrative border of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia towards the Enguri River. This caused the villages of the Zugdidi region Ganmukhuri and Khurcha, villages of the Tsalenjikha region Fakhulani, Tchale, Mujava and Fotskho-Etseri, as well as territory of the Enguri Hydro Power Plant and adjacent villages of Phichori, Otobaia, Nabakevi, Tagiloni, Chuburkhinji, Dikhazurga and Saberio to fall under the occupation of the Russian...

U.N. War Crimes Court Convicts Four Senior Ethnic Albanian Rebels and Sentences Them to Prison PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro July 16 — A court convicted four senior ethnic Albanian rebels and sentenced them to prison Wednesday for atrocities committed during their 1998-1999 war against Yugoslav forces in the province of Kosovo. It was the first time that the United Nations-administered court had convicted anyone of war crimes from the rebel side in the Kosovo conflict. The three judges sentenced Rrustem Mustafa and three of his associates to prison terms ranging from five to 17 years for ordering the killings, illegal arrests and...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (what a joke), April 24 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - The spokesman for a group of 19 Euro MPs visiting the West Bank said Tuesday, April 23, that the Israeli occupation army's assault on the Jenin refugee camp "shows all the signs of a war crime," news agencies reported. Francis Wurtz (Group of the European United Left), who heads a delegation from nine parliamentary blocs representing 10 European Union (E.U.) countries, said the situation was "totally intolerable," Agence France-Presse (AFP) recorded. He said the group had come to the West Bank to show that a "majority of the...