Russians Press Ahead With Gerogia Offensive

An eyewitness described to IWPR an incident on the evening of August 12 when a minibus carrying civilians from Tbilisi to Zugdidi was fired on from the air, killing 13 of the 17 people inside.

“We heard the noise of planes, two planes flew over us and dropped bombs,” Gia, one of the survivors, told IWPR, asking for his surname not to be given. “The bombs didn’t hit us, but then they fired on us from the air. A young girl was sitting next to me, a man behind me. They both died. When I looked back everyone was dead.”

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Looting reignites Russia-Georgia tensions

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Hundreds of South Ossetian rebels with some Russian army personnel went house-to-house in villages near Gori. They torched houses and looted buildings, witnesses said.

The body of a man, his mouth caked with blood, lay in a street in the village of Dzardzanis and nearby the body of a bearded man could be seen crushed under an overturned minivan, an AFP journalist reported.

Human Rights Watch said its researchers in South Ossetia had “witnessed terrifying scenes of destruction in four villages that used to be populated exclusively by ethnic Georgians.”

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