by Sabrina Tavernise
New York Times, August 20,2008
TKVIAVI, Georgia — The men who came to Gulnara Militaura’s house seemed to know what they were looking for. They entered her kitchen and shot her husband and his brother in the head. For the next five days, as attacks and looting raged outside, she cowered at home, sprinkling vinegar on the bodies to try to keep them from rotting.
Now that the fighting between Georgia and Russia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia has subsided, killings like those will be grist for competing claims of ethnic cleansing.
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Reporting was contributed by Olesya Vartanyan and Eric Barrett from Tbilisi, C J. Chivers from Tkviavi, Matt Siegel from Vladikavkaz, and John Wendle from the road north of Tskhinvali.© The New York Times Company
HRW had blamed Russian side earlier, that "deliberate attempts by the Russian government to exaggerate the number of people killed in the South Ossetia conflict are provoking revenge attacks on Georgian villagers in the breakaway republic, a respected human rights group claimed today" (Human Right Watch: Georgian villages still burning)
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