KSUISI, Georgia — After Georgian soldiers stormed South Ossetia and killed Vitaly Guzitayev's friend, he hid in the woods. Once the Georgians left, he set fire to the elegant brick homes of ethnic Georgians who lived nearby.

"Georgians must not return here. Ossetia is for Ossetians," Guzitayev spat, sitting on a bench in Ksuisi two weeks later. "Let Georgians suffer. Now we are independent from them."

Arson gangs have targeted the homes of ethnic Georgians in breakaway South Ossetia as the conflict over control threatens to erase a centuries-old ethnic mix. Since the warfare between Georgia and Russia in early August, Associated Press reporters have witnessed burning homes and looting in villages in the region. - YURAS KARMANAU, AP (Associated Press writer Yuras Karmanau spent 11 days traveling independently through the battle zones)

Бандитам Кокойты этого никто не простит. Да и России - тоже. Гаага неизбежна!

Russia first claimed that 2,000 people were killed as a result of what it calls Georgia’s “genocide” in South Ossetia. HRW says these figures are wildly inflated (Tskhinvali’s city hospital registered just 44 dead and 273 wounded). Now even the Russians are talking of only 133 civilian deaths. HRW also cannot confirm many other atrocities ascribed by the Kremlin to the Georgians. Most residents in Tskhinvali who hid in basements tell identical stories of Georgian horrors, stoked by the Russian media, but few witnessed them at first hand. Although the Russian army is keen to show the damage inflicted by the Georgians, it is less keen for foreign journalists to see Georgian villages torched and looted by the South Ossetian militia and Russian irregulars.

Yet the evidence of ethnic cleansing of Georgians is obvious. In the neighbourhood of Tskhinvali, many Georgian villages have been burnt and most homes destroyed. “Forward to Tbilisi,” says a sign in Russian painted on the gates of one ruin. As one South Ossetian intelligence officer told an HRW representative, “we burned these houses. We want to make sure that they [the Georgians] can’t come back, because if they do come back, this will be a Georgian enclave again and this should not happen.” - The Economist

Милошевич (Путинодведев) и Караджич (Кокойты), когда строили "великую региональную державу", тоже не думали, что им отвечать придётся.