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...Though Russian and Ossetian sources have claimed that between 1,500 and 2,000 died in fighting in and around Tskhinvali, officials at the city's main hospital said only 45 people had died in that facility since fighting had begun, while another three had died a field hospital in the courtyard outside...
...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...
...Anti-American sentiment is running high in both North and South Ossetia, especially among unpredictable and sometimes drunk irregulars. Asked why special restrictions seemed to apply to the movements of American journalists, a Kremlin spokesman said the Russian army could not guarantee their safety...
...inside locked armored personnel carriers. Yet on Tuesday, before Human Rights Watch issued its report, it allowed photographers to stand with their torsos outside the vehicle to see burning buildings and irregular fighters carting away home appliances. On the ride out of the city on Thursday, commanders allowed a Russian TV reporter to sit outside the vehicle - even while they claimed to fear snipers - while they pushed me roughly back into the vehicle when I tried to stick my head...
...Signs of the fighting are everywhere in this city smashed by two armies. At the destroyed hilltop fortress outpost of Russian peacekeepers who were based here before the war, the mutilated corpses of two Georgian soldiers lay bloated in the street. Both were stripped to their underwear. One lay on his back, with a stick propped between his shoulder and neck, a white plastic bag containing papers tied to the top. The second corpse had no arms or legs and looked as if it had been burnt...