No signs of Russia claim of genocide by Georgia in South Ossetia

South Ossetia's capital, Tskhinvali, slowly emerges from shell shock, but the damage doesn't appear to be on the scale Russia claimed...Russian officials have claimed that the city was flattened, comparing the wreckage to the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II. Leaders in Moscow have repeatedly used the term genocide, and spoke of thousands of corpses. Full Story »

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Ryan McDonald
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by Ryan McDonald - Oct. 1, 2008

Here is a BBC clip from two days before 8/8 showing Georgians already fighting in south ossetia. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1f0_hGSUwk The official count isn't over 2000 as the LA Times article says, that was a preliminary estimate. Here are better numbers (1600 civilians) http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/29005 Georgian peacekeeping troops literally stabbed russian peacekeeping troops in the back right before the main attack.

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