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...human and physical damage is daunting enough. Hundreds of people have been killed, villages razed, bridges buckled and blown up, railways cut. Days after the cease-fire was agreed, the Russian army was still destroying military and civilian targets; the Georgian government accused it of inexplicably setting fire to vast tracts of woodland. In South Ossetia, the looting and deliberate destruction of ethnic Georgian villages mean that the two populations - Georgian and Ossetian - will not any time soon live side by side, as they had for centuries...
...political impact of the fighting is far-reaching. Russia has vowed that its troops will continue to occupy slices of Georgian territory even after its supposed withdrawal, acting as "peacekeepers" in the self-styled autonomous regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Georgia can "forget about" its territorial integrity, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said...
...Georgia DISPATCH BURNING ANGER After a brief pause, fires have started again in the breakaway republic of South Ossetia, as Ossetian villagers burn and pillage homes belonging to ethnic Georgian residents. "They did this because they don't want us to come back," says Iosif Zadashvili, who claims Russian soldiers stood by while Ossetian irregulars beat him in the courtyard of his home. With many villages reduced to burned-out shells, looters were seen hauling off TVs, refrigerators and other household appliances. On the road to the Russian border, graffiti on the side of a building read THANK YOU, RUSSIA...
...important that the entire world understands that what is happening in Georgia now will affect the entire world order," Georgian Cabinet Minister Temur Yakobashvili said last weekend. "It's not just Georgia's business, but the entire world's business." Such sentiments would have been unremarkable but for the fact that Yakobashvili was expressing himself in fluent Hebrew, telling Israeli Army Radio that "Israel should be proud of its military, which trained Georgian soldiers...
...said that his office was still in the beginning stages of the investigation, but that Russia would not rule out charging high ranking Georgian officials, including Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, and bringing them before an international court...