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Re: Georgia's War Crimes. International Court of Justice. Genocide criminal case.
Russia opens ‘genocide’ criminal case on South Ossetia events
TSKHINVAL, August 14 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian Prosecutor’s Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case over the fact of murder of Russian citizens in South Ossetia under the Criminal Code article “genocide,” Igor Komissarov, an aide to the committee’s chairman, told Itar-Tass.
“The Investigative Committee’s main department have instituted criminal proceedings under Article 357 of the Russian Criminal Code- “genocide” based on received information on actions taken by the Georgian armed forces aimed at the liquidation of citizens of Russia residing in South Ossetia and Ossetians by nationality by way of murders and infliction of heavy damage to health,” said Komissarov.
About 100 Russian investigators are continuing work in Tskhinval at present probing into the killings of Russian citizens and Russian peacekeepers.
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili’s actions in South Ossetia are a war crime and an act of genocide against Ossetians, Russian permanent representative to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said earlier. “At least 2,500 people have already fallen victim to a humanitarian catastrophe in South Ossetia. Since the entire population of South Ossetia is 73,000, proportionately this is the biggest act of genocide in the history of Europe since World War II,” Rogozin told a briefing on Monday.
“The most terrible thing is that this is happening not because of a natural calamity but because of a well thought-out plan of Georgian authorities,” he said. Rogozin spoke in detail about Russia’s efforts to overcome the humanitarian catastrophe, the goals of the operation to enforce peace in South Ossetia and about Russia’s demands to stop the conflict. “Our demands are that the Georgian troops should leave the area where the peacekeepers stay, a ceasefire should be announced, and an agreement on the non-use of force should be signed,” he said. Georgia is showing disrespect for international law and notions of humanity in the conduct of military actions, Rogozin said.
Some day, Russia will raise the problem of genocide of the Ossetian people and ethnic cleansings that Georgian forces have carried out in the unrecognised republic of South Ossetia, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday as he addressed a joint news conference together with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
“Quite naturally, the problem of ethnic cleansings there does exist, and we’ve been quite resolute in raising the issue and will continue raising it in the future to expose the people responsible for them,” Medvedev said. “However, some of our partners ask us in private conversations for some reason to refrain from raising it,” he said. “Maybe, they feel shy.”
“International law qualifies such problems as a crime, like the slaughter of thousands of people, and it is called genocide,” Medvedev said. “More than that, we’ve said in the past we’re surprised to see the situations where one individual who killed thousands of people is described as a terrorist and a moron while another such individual is treated as a legitimately elected president of a sovereign country,” he said.
“International law doesn’t have provisions for the use of double standards, and we must observe this in political practices,” Medvedev said.
“The city was burnt to the ground, leveled. It’s like Stalingrad. The images are very similar,” said South Ossetian presidential plenipotentiary in Russia Dmitry Medoyev. He added that it is still dangerous to talk over mobile phones, as it may invoke another round of shelling.
Ossetian protesters demonstrate outside NATO headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday Aug. 19, 2008. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her NATO counterparts are reviewing relations with Moscow and are expected to curtail high level meetings and military cooperation with Russia if it does not abandon crucial positions across Georgia.Comment
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