Georgia - a peaceloving genocide

Dominik

 What do you think about this article?

It says: Tskhinvali, where most of the fighting took place, mostly intact and with "little evidence of a high death toll." 

Russia News have shown LOTS of damage and destruction in Tskhinval, saying the city has been essentially destroyed. And this kind of evidence is a rare case when it is easy to see and hard to falsify.

I don't know what the author wants to say by referring to the interview with a doctor who said the hospital had treated only several hundred patients. Can a hospital take through it 2000 patients in a space of a day or two (until the Russian army came)? Also take into account that, as per Russian news, the Tskhinval hospital was a target of Georgian artillery and even GRADs, which were using splinter shells that don't inflict much damage to buildings but kill everything alive.

Under heavy bombardment, most of medical treatment was delivered in cellars, for they were the only (relatively) safe place.

Another evidence hard to fabricate is the number of refugees from S. Ossetia, which is reported to be around 34000, 40% of the population! 

I seriously doubt Russian government is dumb enough to tell a kind of lie that can be checked and disproved so easily.

Dominik

 What do you think about this article?

Mythmaking in Moscow

Hey, Dominik, I just wathced that interview with the dictor (on a site linked by ISU), and you know what? It is true, but the words have bee taken out of context. So here it is:

"You ask me if it is possible that 2000 have been killed? If to take the whole region into account, then I think yes. During the six days that we almost wholly spent in the cellar, the city was intensively bombarded by GRADs and other weapons <cut>. I saw tanks in the city and jets above that were bombarding us. It was a real horror.... to attack civillians this way, in the *** century... Only in our hospital (sic! – Ant) there were 273 wounded, and 45 died (not "dead"), two journalists among them (cut). We damped the bodies in our trauma center because we couldn't get to the morgue due to the shelling."

 Now, let's compare it to the distorted version presented by Washington Post:

"A doctor at Tskhinvali Regional Hospital who was on duty from the afternoon of August 7 told Human Rights Watch that between August 6 to 12 the hospital treated 273 wounded, both military and civilians. . . . The doctor also said that 44 bodies had been brought to the hospital since the fighting began, of both military and civilians. The figure reflects only those killed in the city of Tskhinvali. But the doctor was adamant that the majority of people killed in the city had been brought to the hospital before being buried, because the city morgue was not functioning due to the lack of electricity in the city."

The first distortion is the omission of the doctor's opinion – she did think 2000 was a real figure. Then it's a lie that dead bodies were brought to that hospital – that people died within the hospital. At last, in the last sentence, shelling has been replaced by a modest "lack of electricity" as the reason they couldn't deliver the bodies to the morgue.