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| 'Putin has given us an order that everyone must leave or be shot' |
| 2008-08-18 |
| “The soldiers told us they had an order from Putin - leave or be killed.” Manana Dioshvili showed no emotion as she described how Russian troops forced her to flee her home. Her former neighbours nodded in agreement, huddled together in a kindergarten whose windows had been blown out by a Russian bomb. “That’s how they explained themselves to us,” she recalled of the moment they fled the ethnic Georgian village of Kurta, near the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali. “They said, ‘Putin has given us an order that everyone must be either shot or forced to leave’. They told us we should ask the Americans for help now because they would kill us if we stayed.” Vardo Babutidze, 79, was not lucky enough to be visited by Russian soldiers. Her husband Georgi, 85, was shot twice through the chest by an Ossetian paramilitary who came to their house to demand weapons. |
| Posted by:Spaish Flomble3461 |
| #9 You're only going to confuse it, you know. |
| Posted by: Semble Watkins 2008-08-18 22:10 |
| #8 The source was the Times of UK, not Fox News. |
| Posted by: badanov 2008-08-18 22:08 |
| #7 FOX says it so it must be true. What a fucked up country. |
| Posted by: Ebbeaper Poodle7516 2008-08-18 21:33 |
| #6 Pogrom, genocide and ethnic cleansing are all longstanding Russian traditions. So you could say Putin is being a traditionalist. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-08-18 13:57 |
| #5 "Same as the old boss" Putin seems far WORSE than any of the recent Russian bosses. How far is Putin going to go back? Stalin? |
| Posted by: Slats Glans2659 2008-08-18 13:40 |
| #4 Meet the new boss Same as the old boss We won't get fooled again |
| Posted by: The Who 2008-08-18 12:42 |
| #3 You expect anything less from Putin? Silly child! |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2008-08-18 12:41 |
| #2 Typical communist, dictatorship type of enforcement. New Russia, same as the old. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-08-18 11:51 |
| #1 Sounds like terror to me. Is a new category needed for Putin's terror campaign? |
| Posted by: Slats Glans2659 2008-08-18 11:42 |