Europe's leading human rights and security body, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, accused the Georgian government of committing likely war crimes in the Georgian rebel region of South Ossetia, Der Spiegel said in a report published on Monday 1st September 2008. The Vienna-based OSCE massively criticized Georgia's western- backed leadership for its assault on South Ossetia, saying Tbilisi planned the invasion well in advance.
According OSCE report by Spiegel there is at least four interesting facts which mainstream Western media now must swallow:
- First, the article presents evidence showing how Georgia prepared military actions against South Ossetia before the event transpired,
- Second, it demonstrates how Georgia attacked South Ossetia before Russian tanks even entered the Roki tunnel,
- Third, the article includes testimonies from observers who say Tbilisi ordered an attack on South Ossetia at night while innocent civilians were sleeping,
- Forth Spiegel writes that reports by OSCE observers point to possible military crimes, committed by Georgian troops in South Ossetia.
Same time when Spiegel published it’s cover story the EU’s Brussels summit agreed to condemn Russia’s “inappropriate response” and declared Russia’s recognition of the dissident regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia was “contrary to international law”. The EU summit also stated that any solution to the conflict must “rest on respect for independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity—and not on unilateral facts, which contradict international law”.
These remarks of EU summit are sounding a bit familiar to me. Exactly – the words above are almost same which Russia was using about Kosovo case. Then EU and USA were talking something about “absolutely unique – sui generis - case”, which is no precedent. What a double standards and hypocrisy I must say.
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