Death toll in South Ossetia reaches 2000

http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28732

Death toll in South Ossetia reaches 2000
The death toll in the unrecognised republic has now reached at least 2000, according to Russia's Ambassador to Georgia Vyacheslav Kovalenko. The Chief of Russian ground forces Igor Konashenkov claims Georgia's military action in Tskhinvali has resulted in the destruction of all hospitals, and many children have been killed.

More than ten border villages have reportedly, also been burnt to the ground.

The Russian President Dimitry Medvedev said by its recent actions, Georgia is denying the right to life, for the whole of South Ossetia.

He explained the aims of the Russian forces in the conflict zone,

"Russian peacekeepers and military units are carrying out an operation to enforce Georgia to a peace deal. They are also responsible for defence of the population".

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says the government is planning to allocate around 400 million U.S. dollars for the reconstruction of South Ossetia.

The Russian Ambassador to Georgia says 13 Russian peacekeepers have been killed and seventy wounded during the Georgian attacks.

People take shelter in bunkers

Targeting hospitals and killing civilians.

but can't remember where.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/08/09/international/i000517D82.DTL&hw=russian+tanks&sn=001&sc=1000

"Putin arrived late Saturday in the Russian city of Vladikavkaz to talk to South Ossetian refugees who have fled the fighting. He said there were at least 34,000 refugees."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/war-30000-homeless-as-a-chaotic-conflict-intensifies-889751.html

As many as 2,000 people may have been killed and 30,000 made homeless as the chaotic conflict between Georgian and Russian forces in the pro-Moscow enclave of South Ossetia entered its second bloody day.


Georgia's parliament approved a state of war across the country for the next 15 days, while also calling for a ceasefire. The Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, said that there would be no talks until Georgian troops left the conflict zone. And, in what could be a second front, Abkhazia, another pro-Russian enclave in Georgia, said its forces had begun an operation to drive out Tbilisi's forces.

The situation on the ground in South Ossetia, most of whose population are ethnic Russians, remained highly confused. Russia said it had seized South Ossetia's capital, Tskhinvali, but Georgia denied this. Russia, which sent in tanks to back the South Ossetians, said its forces had "liberated" the enclave's capital, but Georgia responded that Tskhinvali was under its "complete control".

A Russian journalist said Tskhinvali had been badly damaged. "The town is destroyed. There are many casualties, many wounded," Zaid Tsarnayev told Reuters. Russian jets carried out up to five raids on mostly military targets around the Georgian town of Gori, close to the conflict zone in South Ossetia. But some missiles went astray, killing at least a dozen people. A woman knelt in the street and screamed over the body of a dead man, as a bombed apartment block burned nearby.

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