Georgian Soldiers Shooting At Civilian Homes And Cheer (video)

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We are getting more information about war crimes committed by the Georgian troops.


Tskhinvali (capital of South Ossetia) today

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YouTube - Shooting civilian homes

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To everyone who is reading it. If you have any information about Georgia's war crimes in South Ossetia or Abkhazia, please, send it to the International Court of Justice - http://www.icj-cij.org/homepage/index.php?p1=7&p2=4&m=contact


And to President of Russia:

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http://kremlin.ru/eng/articles/send_letter_Eng1a.shtml


From kremlin.ru:

August 10, 2008 18:30
Sunday

Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Russian Federation Prosecutor General's Office Committee of Inquiry to document crimes committed in South Ossetia in order to prosecute the perpetrators.

Mr Medvedev had a working meeting with Chairman of the Committee of Inquiry Alexander Bastrykin.

Mr Bastrykin will fly to Vladikavkaz to coordinate work in the field on collecting documented evidence of crimes committed by Georgian forces in South Ossetia. This work has already begun. The Investigations Committee is sending another 150 criminal investigation specialists to reinforce the efforts underway. The evidence gathered will be used as the basis for future prosecution of the perpetrators of crimes.

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Working meeting with Chairman of the Russian Federation Prosecutor General’s Office Committee of Inquiry Alexander Bastrykin.

http://kremlin.ru/eng/sdocs/news.shtml#205091

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From Washington Times:

Russians pilfer U.S. equipment
Pentagon says no 'sensitive items' taken with Humvees

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

EXCLUSIVE:

Russian forces seized U.S. military equipment during the recent fighting in Georgia in addition to five vehicles whose capture was reported earlier, the Pentagon said Monday.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Russian troops broke open two large shipping containers in the Georgian port of Poti and "pilfered" the contents. Sensitive communications and electronics equipment used by U.S. forces during a joint U.S.-Georgia military exercise prior to the Aug. 8 incursion had already been shipped out of the port, he added.
One of the containers belonged to the Marines, which also lost five Humvees to the Russians. Mr. Whitman said he did not know who owned the other container.

The Russian newspaper Izvestia reported that the captured equipment included Global Positioning System equipment used in weapons targeting, identification, friend-or-foe electronic gear and classified radio and reconnaissance equipment.

A spokesman for the Russian Embassy in Washington, Evgeny Khorisko, said he had no knowledge of such equipment being seized or containers being opened. "I only know about the Humvees," Mr. Khorisko said.
Mr. Whitman insisted that high-intelligence-value equipment had not been compromised, while at the same time acknowledging he did not know exactly what the Russians now had in their possession.

"We can't tell what was in them, and we're still doing an assessment, but none of them had sensitive items in them," he said. The disclosure came as the Bush administration announced that it was pulling from Congress an agreement with Russia for peaceful cooperation in the civilian nuclear field.
"We make this decision with regret," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in a statement. "Unfortunately, given the current environment, the time is not right for this agreement."

Russia reacted with ambivalence. The Interfax news agency quoted a Foreign Ministry official as saying, "Such a step is regrettable," but "Russia does not need civilian nuclear cooperation with the United States more than [Washington]."
The Pentagon has also announced a review of U.S.-Russia military cooperation and promised Georgia $1 billion in economic aid and an unspecified amount of military help.

The U.S. European Command will soon conduct a major security assessment of Georgia to determine what U.S. weapons and training will be sent to the former Soviet republic as part of increased U.S. aid, Mr. Whitman said.

"In the days to come, we'll start doing a security assessment in terms of what Georgia needs in terms of its internal and external security," he said.
While Mr. Whitman said he could not identify what was in the seized containers, officials at the European Command, which was in charge of the military exercises, said they suspected that the equipment was crew gear.

The equipment and Humvees were sent to Georgia in July as part of a monthlong military-training exercise with U.S. and Georgian forces and was being returned through the port of Poti when the Russians seized it Aug. 19. The vehicles and equipment were being shipped back to the United States following the exercise, which involved about 1,000 U.S. soldiers and 600 Georgian troops.
"We are trying to determine what equipment was taken and under what conditions and how to get it back," said a U.S. defense official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "We know about the Humvees. All the other equipment was left over from the exercise that had taken place. We don't think it was extensive. Some had already left the country."
Gen. Conway said, "I think we're going to send the Russians a bill and tell them, you know, either pay up or give us back our vehicles, guys. You know, that's not the way we do business."

READ MORE -- http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/09/russians-pilfer-us-equipment


MOSCOW (AFP)--Russian forces have seized a "large arsenal" of U.S.-made weapons in the western Georgian city of Senaki including hundreds of assault rifles, a military spokesman said Friday.
"In Senaki, we seized a large arsenal of weapons including 664 U.S.-made M-16 rifles" and a number of M-40 sniper rifles, General Anatoly Nogovitsyn told a news conference in Moscow. "There were 1,728 weapons total."

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Russian forces seized a "large arsenal" of US-made weapons in the western Georgian city of Senaki including hundreds of assault rifles and grenade launchers, a military spokesman said Friday.

http://www.france24.com/en/20080815-russia-seizes-large-arsenal-us-weapons-military-spokesman


http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080815093443.kmmhebyl&show_article=1




MOSCOW (AFP)--Russian forces have seized a "large arsenal" of U.S.-made weapons in the western Georgian city of Senaki including hundreds of assault rifles, a military spokesman said Friday.
"In Senaki, we seized a large arsenal of weapons including 664 U.S.-made M-16 rifles" and a number of M-40 sniper rifles, General Anatoly Nogovitsyn told a news conference in Moscow. "There were 1,728 weapons total."

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So america delivered even sniper rifles to them....


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The M40 is a bolt-action sniper rifle used by the United States Marine Corps. It has had three variants — the M40, the M40A1 and the M40A3. The M40 was introduced in 1966. The changeover to the A1 model was completed in the 1970s, and the A3 in the 2000s.

Each firearm begins life as a Remington 700, and is then extensively modified by hand by USMC 2112/gunsmiths at Marine Corps Base Quantico, using components from a number of suppliers. New M40A3s are being built, and A1s are upgraded to A3s as they rotate into the armory for service and repair. The rifles have had many sub-variations in telescopic sights, and smaller user modifications.
The original M40 was a military type-classified version of the Remington 700; it was factory-made, and had a one-piece wooden stock. The M40A1 and A3 switched to fiberglass, with new scopes added as well. The trigger pull on both models (M40A1/A3) is 3 to 5 lbs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M40_rifle

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some interesting articles there

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Photo evidence of Georgian peacekeepers’ sabotage training

America and its dirty deeds.


Russia will provide international organizations with evidence that foreign instructors trained Georgian peacekeepers in the conflict zone with Abkhazia for sabotage missions, Russia’s Chief Military Prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky told reporters on Wednesday.

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“The pictures clearly show men wearing uniforms with insignia of other countries standing next to Georgian peacekeepers. They are training the Georgians sabotage techniques, particularly how to make crude devices for subversion purposes and killing people,” Fridinsky said.

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MORE PHOTOS -- http://en.rian.ru/photolents/20080911/116702810_1.html