Georgia: Russia Troops Blocking Refugee Return

August 31st, 2008 By: Michael van der Galien | Tags:

‘Russian troops deep inside Georgian territory are stopping thousands of refugees from returning to their homes, a Georgian official said on Saturday,’ Reuters reports.

‘Russian soldiers were still manning checkpoints in Georgia and patrolling a Black Sea port even after Moscow pulled back much of the force it deployed three weeks ago to crush Georgia’s attempt to take back separatist province South Ossetia.’

The refusal to let Georgian refugees turn to their homes is part of the Russian Bear’s attempt to destroy Georgia completely, and to do so while showing a middle finger to the West.

Moscow pretends to be reasonable, when it is not. Georgians continues to suffer en masse, because Russia knows it can get away with playing games. It uses every opportunity it has to bully its neighbor to the South, and to punish it for it considers to be ‘bad behavior’; protecting its own rather than Russia’s interests.

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  1. slava
    August 31st, 2008 at 23:52
    Reply | Quote | #1

    Here are the interviews Putin gave CNN and ARD (with English subtitles). CNN and ARD only showed a few clips of the interviews leaving out most important parts. Watch and you will know why. cnn interview youtube(.)com/view_play_list?p=5DD7EE57C9882ACC

    German ARD interview youtube(.)com/view_play_list?p=97F7804EF8BF7EFF

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