Russia’s Clusterbombing of Georgia
Banclusterbombs spends time to Russia’s use of clusterbombs in the recent war with Georgia.
During this war, several Georgian citizens were killed by these bombs designed to kill as many people, including civilians, as possible.
According to reports, about a dozen Georgian citizens, innocent, not fighting in any army, were killed by Russian clusterbombs which were used against Georgia’s population during the recent war about South Ossetia.
The organization Surviver Corps is dedicated to spreading the word about clusterbombs and banning them. Earlier this year, more than 100 countries agreed to ban this all-killing bomb. The war between Russia and Georgia makes clear why so many organizations oppose this bomb, which is not merely designed to kill soldiers but also innocent civilians.
Whether or not clusterbombs should be banned is part of a complicated debate about what weapons should be used in wars, and what weapons should be consider off limites. Russia’s use of the clusterbomb, however, cannot be debated; the Russians used the bombs to target civilians, not soldiers. The idea was to destroy as much as they could, without any regard for human life.
Many may not know about Russia’s dirty war, but it was dirty and the world should be informed about the crimes committed by Russia in the name of modern imperialism.
You forgot to mention that Georgia in fact admitted to have used clusterbombs on South Ossetians, starting the dirty war in the name of the US.
Could you guys be more professional, read this:" A prominent human rights group says Georgia has admitted dropping cluster bombs in its military offensive to assert control over the restive province of South Ossetia. Human Rights Watch says it has received an official letter from Georgia’s Defense Ministry that acknowledges use of the M85 cluster munition near the Roki tunnel that connects South Ossetia with Russia. The M85 is the same weapon that was used extensively by Israel in its 2006 war with Hezbollah in Lebanon." (from AP, 09.01.2009)
You take some might morally relativistic stances Michael:"The fact of the matter is that weapons are designed to kill, and that they are seldom nice. It’s also a fact that modern governments usually do everything in their power to prevent civilian losses… but you can’t rule them out completely if you want to actually win wars. Making cluster bombs saver is probably the best option; not using them isn’t an option." -MvdGI guess one man’s atrocity is another man’s tool, or it seems that really it matter which side you think is right in any given scenario.Just for the record, I think it’s atrocity whenever anyone uses them.How you seperate this from Georgia’s use of cluster bombs, or Israels use of cluster bombs in Lebanon eludes me.
Why is bloat-gas media so biased?
Media reportage
Georgia was the first to use cluster bombs, which means the title of this article is (purposfully) misleading. How many "South Ossetian citizens, innocent, not fighting in any army, were killed by Georgian clusterbombs"?
First the author says "several" "civilians" were killed, then he claims a dozen.
So which one is it? Several? or a dozen?
"Many may not know about Russia’s dirty war, but it was dirty and the world should be informed about the crimes committed by Russia in the name of modern imperialism."
This is a utterly ludicrous statement.
Everybody knows about "Russia’s dirty war" because the Western media broadcasts this untrue hate speech from every corner and rooftop. The "world" doesn’t "need to be informed" they have already heard the media lies about Russia’s "invasion" a thousand times.
Media twisted the reality- a Georgian invasion, into a fairy tale - a Russian invasion.
Media had no regard, no, media acted with blatant disregard for the truth, swallowing each wild paranoid claim from Tbilisi as if it were gold.
The Truth was ignored, ostrcized, and buried.
The Truth is that this was "Georgia’s dirty war."
The Truth is that Georgia used US-made clusterbombs, and other US-supplied weapons to launch a surprise attack on South Ossetia, slaughtering hundreds of civilians and blowing up apartment buildings and even demolishing the statues in the park in Tskinval.
But left-wing media bigots don’t care for the truth, they are so sure
of the greatness and god-like righteousness of their selfish, prejudiced opinions, that they constantly twist the truth into a pretzel. The arrogantly preach to the rest of us, as if they are on a God-given mission to re-educate us.
In other words, they lie.
Media bigots would love Joe Stalin.
Maybe that’s why adore Georgia, home of Joe Stalin.
I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a Georgian invasion. You could call the US civil war a Northern or Southern invasion depending on your POV, but it’s much more accurate to call it a civil war. Seems to me that Russia just took a strong side in that civil war. That doesn’t make it right, but it certainly doesn’t make it a victim.
It does bring up an interesting wrinkle in democracies though. If people have the basic right to rule themselves, then when is succession okay?
Our media always loved Stalin despite the fact that he killed millions of civilian people across and beyond the USSR! 1937-1939 were the years with the most casualties, reported deaths were counted in millions - THIS IS NOT A JOKE! Yet US thought he was actually a GREAT FELLOW working hard to improve life in his country! - Time magazine made him MAN OF THE YEAR in 1940! http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19400101,00.htmlNow that should tell you something about the media!
Usually they win nobel peace prizes.
Kevin; Israel and Turkey use them, or might use them, because they are attacked. Russia was not attacked; it was imperialism. Allowing different weapons to be used in different circumstances is not ‘relativism.’ Not doing it is.