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Interfax, Russia
Aug 15 2008
Russian ombudsman accuses Georgia of deliberate killing of civilians
Moscow, 15 August: A commission of the Public Chamber has proof that
Georgian military have killed children and pregnant women in South
Ossetia, Aleksandr Brod, member of the chamber and director of the
Moscow human rights bureau, has said. "Little children were crushed by
tanks and pregnant women were shot at. There was pinpoint targeting of
flats in residential areas. Grenades were thrown in basements where
peaceful civilians were hiding from shelling," Aleksandr Brod told
Interfax on Friday [15 August].
The ombudsman said that the facts and witness accounts that have been
collected make it possible to draw the conclusion that the Georgian
leadership had planned "the physical annihilation of the entire people
of the unrecognised republic".
Aleksandr Brod is member of a commission investigating military crimes
in South Ossetia. "The number of people wishing to help us is
growing. Journalists and public organizations are coming forward. They
bring us written accounts, photographs and video footage," he
said. Aleksandr Brod has suggested that Georgia's military crimes be
assessed as comparable to the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide.
Aug 15 2008
Russian ombudsman accuses Georgia of deliberate killing of civilians
Moscow, 15 August: A commission of the Public Chamber has proof that
Georgian military have killed children and pregnant women in South
Ossetia, Aleksandr Brod, member of the chamber and director of the
Moscow human rights bureau, has said. "Little children were crushed by
tanks and pregnant women were shot at. There was pinpoint targeting of
flats in residential areas. Grenades were thrown in basements where
peaceful civilians were hiding from shelling," Aleksandr Brod told
Interfax on Friday [15 August].
The ombudsman said that the facts and witness accounts that have been
collected make it possible to draw the conclusion that the Georgian
leadership had planned "the physical annihilation of the entire people
of the unrecognised republic".
Aleksandr Brod is member of a commission investigating military crimes
in South Ossetia. "The number of people wishing to help us is
growing. Journalists and public organizations are coming forward. They
bring us written accounts, photographs and video footage," he
said. Aleksandr Brod has suggested that Georgia's military crimes be
assessed as comparable to the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide.