Anyone read the reports in the press yesterday, such as the Sunday Times, where they were riding around with the South Ossetian irregulars looking for people to kill and rape? Or perhaps the one's in today's papers with the reports of the killings of husbands and sons of those sent south so magnanimously through the Ossetian government "corridor". Not all of them of course, there are the hostages being held by the
Ossetian "government".
Not much being done to stop it by the Russian army of course, they're pulling out in accordance with the ceasefire, right? Err, no; in Gori they're busy replacing the destroyed TV and radio stations with their own, and they now hold a third of the country. Effectively they have taken the road that runs east-west and have ceased the top third of Georgia and are destroying all military installations and civil infrastructure as well as expelling the population.
The reasoning for their lack of movement from the Kremlin ia that they are no longer the Russian army; no, now they are peacekeepers, enforcing a buffer zone. Well, that must be OK then.
They will be leaving Gori and the like then? And, after all the first hand reports, they must be going to make some arrests, restore some order? Ohh yes, indeed, as soon as they can catch the Georgians at it. It's a lies and a plot you see...
Torygraph: "As the Russian occupation continued on Sunday, the defence ministry in Moscow claimed to have uncovered a Georgian plot to send undercover mercenaries, Ukrainians and Chechens among them, into the strategic town of Gori. "They will be dressed in Russian military uniform and let go in Gori, where these bands will loot and pillage the local residents," a spokesman for the ministry said. "This will be filmed by television cameras and then presented to the world as an atrocity of the Russian war machine."
And your really have to ask who wears the black hats?
Some peoples memories are waaaay too short, and they never suffered under the Russian boot themselves. Which is why it is unsurprising that Poland, the Baltic states etc are reacting so much more vigourously than "old Europe".