29 October 2008

HRW Alleges Georgian War Crimes in South Ossetia

It's a BBC radio broadcast (at link), but the money quote is:
Research by the organisation Human Rights Watch [HRW] ints to indiscriminate use of force by the Georgian military and the possible deliberate targeting of civilians.

Indiscriminate use of force is a violation of the Geneva Convention and serious violations are considered to be war crimes.
No big surprise here, this was obvious in the first few hours of the war, before, you know, the Russians eradicated the Georgian military.

It marks a turn around for HRW though. In the early days following the war, they accused the Russians of using cluster bombs....Until it was revealed that the physical evidence that they had was all ofS weapons.

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