Word: ossetians
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...Russian army has refused responsibility for any attacks or other actions carried out by South Ossetian irregulars on Georgian property and populace, which Human Rights Watch said could be characterized as war crimes...
...Control of the situation "is a question for the South Ossetian government. We are here supporting the South Ossetian side. We aren't here to secure the city," said Lieut. Colonel Andrey Bobrun. "The army does not carry out police functions. We are a military army...
...Residents of a Soviet-era apartment block near the scene of a tank battle had gathered in the courtyard to watch on generator-powered TVs news reports of South Ossetian politicians decrying the genocide they claimed Georgian forces had carried out against their people. The residents sat and wrote out accounts of the attack, which one woman said would be sent to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France...
Behind the lines, meanwhile, in territory still nominally under Russian control, reports are emerging of widespread looting and some killings by Ossetian civilians, much of it directed at Georgians. Georgian soldiers and some refugees also allege that civilians from Russia, including Cossacks and Chechens, are flooding into areas that remain under Russian military control to take advantage of the lawlessness...
...stayed behind, thinking that at their age they would not be bothered. But on Monday morning, Levan Khaduri, 84, a tiny gray-haired man with a deep tan, was putting up a new fence around the home that he was born in when a neighbor, who is Ossetian, said, "Don't bother. That is not your home anymore. Just...