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  • Borjomi Flames: Georgia Blames The Russian Military For Forest Fires

    BORJOMI FLAMES: GEORGIA BLAMES THE RUSSIAN MILITARY FOR FOREST FIRES
    Albert Yeremjan

    WPS Agency
    DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
    August 20, 2008 Wednesday
    Russia

    GEORGIAN MILITARY EXPERT SUSPECTS THAT RUSSIA MIGHT ESTABLISH MILITARY
    BASES IN THIS COUNTRY; A look at the situation from Tbilisi.

    All involved parties signed the document stipulating the withdrawal
    of the Russian troops from Georgia but implementation of the plan
    encounters unexpected glitches. David Bakradze of the parliament of
    Georgia said his country had put the cease-fire clause into effect and
    counted on Russia's good will in fulfilling its own obligations. The
    Russians troops meanwhile are in Georgia.

    The Georgian Foreign Ministry reported the railroad bridge in the Kasp
    district blown up by the Russian military last Saturday. The bridge
    connected Georgia with Armenia and Azerbaijan, so that its destruction
    affected these countries too. Another railroad bridge was discovered
    to be wired for explosion in the same district. Specialists discovered
    nearly 400 kilograms of high explosions lashed to the understructure.

    The same sources claim that the Abkhazian military backed by Russian
    regular army seized the territory around the Inguri Hydroelectric
    Power Plant and 13 villages in the areas adjacent to Abkhazia.

    Georgia is convinced that it was Russian military helicopters that
    initiated some forest fires. The Rustavi-2 TV network reported
    200 hectares of woods in the Borjomi-Kharaugli natural park gone
    up in flames. The investigative Department of the Georgian Interior
    Ministry called it ecocide (ecological genocide) and initiated criminal
    proceedings. Georgian Minister of Environment and Natural Resources
    Irakly Gvaladze said collection of evidence proving involvement of
    the Russian military would begin when the fires were put out. The
    nearby village of Dabi was evacuated. Only 4 families out of 120
    chose to remain at home.

    Military expert Irakly Aladashvili assumed that the decision of the
    presidents who had clearly ordered the withdrawal of troops meant
    nothing to the Russian military. "Russia is stalling for time, it's
    as simple as that," he said. "It wants to settle in Gori, nearby
    villages, and in West Georgia in order to control communications and
    sea ports... Russia might even establish military bases there one
    day. It will be done in the guise of reinforcement of peacekeepers
    even though peacekeepers have never been deployed there - and cannot
    be deployed."

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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