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Russia first claimed that 2,000 people were killed as a result of what it calls Georgia’s “genocide” in South Ossetia. HRW says these figures are wildly inflated (Tskhinvali’s city hospital registered just 44 dead and 273 wounded). Now even the Russians are talking of only 133 civilian deaths. HRW also cannot confirm many other atrocities ascribed by the Kremlin to the Georgians. Most residents in Tskhinvali who hid in basements tell identical stories of Georgian horrors, stoked by the Russian media, but few witnessed them at first hand. Although the Russian army is keen to show the damage inflicted by the Georgians, it is less keen for foreign journalists to see Georgian villages torched and looted by the South Ossetian militia and Russian irregulars.
Yet the evidence of ethnic cleansing of Georgians is obvious. In the neighbourhood of Tskhinvali, many Georgian villages have been burnt and most homes destroyed. “Forward to Tbilisi,” says a sign in Russian painted on the gates of one ruin. As one South Ossetian intelligence officer told an HRW representative, “we burned these houses. We want to make sure that they [the Georgians] can’t come back, because if they do come back, this will be a Georgian enclave again and this should not happen.” - The Economist/i.ixnp.com/images/v3.44/theme/silver/palette.gif" target="_blank">http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.44/theme/silver/palette.gif); visibility: visible; max-width: 2000px; vertical-align: top; width: 14px; max-height: 2000px; line-height: normal; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-style: normal; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; position: static; top: auto; height: 12px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" class="snap_preview_icon" />
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