EDITORIAL: Condemning Russian Aggression in Georgia

On January 23rd the Human Rights watch released a 200-page report entitled “Up in Flames: Humanitarian Law Violations in the Conflict Over South Ossetia.” Based “on more than 460 interviews done over several months of field research” the report “details indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks by both Georgian and Russian forces, and the South Ossetian forces’ campaign of deliberate and systematic destruction of certain ethnic Georgian villages in South Ossetia. It also describes Russia’s failure to ensure public order and safety in areas of Georgia that were under its effective control.”

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