greats of the army within a decade georgia hope to join nato there was just one technicality frozen conflicts in its two breakaway provinces and in the summer of two thousand and eight really made a decision to defrost. i believe that peace is more important than anything else for the sake of peace we are open to any compromise in the agreement. over. we. will do anything violence. just to put our efforts together look after our country. to stop violence while the . future better. let's forget all our negative experience in the past and think about the future.

milliner is months a washed out a trespasser her four year old grandson an ethnic georgian she lived in south a city most of her life after several days of skirmishes on the border that night she went to bed with a light heart assured that the war was over. if i had run my children would have been frightened david moore. no i said don't be afraid everything's going to be fine then i got undressed and lay down. when i heard the shooting and loud bangs i quickly put on my clothes and ran into the cellar. but. last than five hours after appeal for peace the first georgian rockets heat melana street the grand toddler in

her arms she sought refuge in her basement among people jars and pots of jam. my little grandson cried grandma the georgians will kill us. i said i'm sure jim do you think i'm going to kill you he replied no grandma you're not really georgian georgians kill people. the timing of the attack caught the russian leadership of guard present maybe it was a holiday while prime minister vladimir putin had traveled to china with their lympics . since his beginning arms have been put down during the olympic games but cheered the situation was completely the opposite. on the eve of the opening ceremony the georgian authorities wanted to could grisette actions

against south a city basically launched a military campaign with the use of heavy artillery and tanks. used people have been killed and wounded including russian peacekeepers. this is said and there were arming and without doubt this will be met with a response and. you. want to put in was giving that the russian response had already been mobilized following this garmisch is on the border maybe that if. it was brought to this residence on the outskirts of moscow where he would face the most challenging task president. already knew about the deaths of russian peacekeepers and the thousands of self-deception streaming across the border into russia. the heavy weight of military decisions always lies on the person that is empowered

by the constitution to take them because. this is your decision and no one else's. we talked on the phone some time before these events that it was a kind of an escalation. we didn't talk with mr putin that night. and he received reports from our army commanders actually it was upon receiving these reports that i made the decision. i think it was the most difficult decision in my life and. i wouldn't wish the weight of this decision on any other leader of any other country in the world. in the meantime the barrage of rockets and continue. the residents had only two options hide in the basement or try to flee the town. family. decided to take their chances the father gathered his kids into an old

florida but the mother had to stay behind to care for an elderly relative. or she would see of them again i was there a chore it remains were found a few kilometers away from home to their car it was shelled by a tank. this is where my son and his children died he was in the front seat of. children their monsters. not. those who stayed put sought refuge in basements that ever they also had to risk their lives by sneaking out food and water was running short and the bodies of those killed were piling up locals use their rare loves and fighting to the graves . since proper funerals were out of the question most of the victims were laid to rest wrapped in linen and carpets right in their own backyards the neighbors couldn't drive them to the cemetery because the fighting was still going on but neither could they leave the bodies out here it's

a matter of honor for self-assertive you have to bury your dead. according to russian asked him as the war in south ossetia claimed several hundred civilian lives compared to the death tolls later seen in libya syria or even palestine it wasn't that high in the question asked in south acedia was why did it have to go that far why didn't brush intervene earlier. while made a bit of always insisted it was russia's duty to protect civilians in south a said here he also had to consider the larger geopolitical context of. self called me the next day. you should know that there was some of the troops on the georgian territory. really i replied what do you mean so i said you should. that there are large number of citizens on the territory of. i

understand and i will do what i have to do and i'll tell you about it so that you know. by two thousand and eight georgia had received around three billion dollars in direct assistance they added in funding wasn't. military uniforms army rations. made in the usa and this is how. you made their attack but over in the kremlin their assessment of american involvement was more level headed. russia should never be in conflict with the united states every american president understands that. we know all about that but i think that was sound reasoning to. they realized it might lead to a very serious conflict which nobody needs. that

realization notwithstanding all the sides continued playing. the georgian leadership adopted a new narrative russian aggression was choking the democratic advances. but. we have this small tiny democracy. we only really responded when hundred fifty russian tanks and a.p.c.'s started to move through georgia and russia border that was exactly the moment. twenty three fifty pm when i gave the order to. the invaders their purpose to. go through all the shortest way or you know winning. as brutal as one can get. this thing is one minute. understanding of what's really happening on. a year later

a european union report would establish unequivocally that it was georgia. and that it was. personally to try to blur the international understanding of what was happening and telling lies with a straight face and playing to far the. truth tellers targeted by the military machine. but second feeley couldn't always keep the act up and one instance he was caught on camera cowering behind his bodyguards. in another nervously chewing on his time just seconds before a live interview. really was increasingly exhibiting signs of irrational behavior to the russian leadership he started to give all of the same impressions as libyan leader moammar gadhafi to western politicians and knowledge of touch rule or the army to kill his own

civilians and he had despite all temptations an attempt to remove him from office was never made. this is where you might say who will difference. i think that it's in situations like this that a country is real and true intentions come to light. initially we had no intentions of changing the regime in the country. spite of the fact that very obvious reasons my colleagues and i will never shake mr saakashvili the way. i consider him a war criminal. my will of violence was already gaining momentum tensions between georgians and south the stadiums had been simmering for decades and the experience of being slaughtered in their own homes had traumatized

each and every one. their blood is poisoned i tell you it is today they're peaceful but tomorrow both slaughter us all. georgian villages in south a city am today almost overnight with people living behind all their belongings litter is made their way in setting houses on fire clear of retaliation was so strong that some left behind their own elderly were discovered days later hungry and disoriented by rescue workers. oh i hear it's hard have you got food. have you gotten bread. we give you a little. the august air here is usually filled with this sweet smell of ripening peaches. knew beforehand that this smell of decomposing human flesh is also suffocating with sweet according to georgian authorities one hundred seventy.

lives in that offensive for days that bodies were rotting in the forest until the locals could get enough coffins to send them back to georgia. people built coffins for the georgians to know much of what happens with christians and the dead need to be buried in a traditional way. that everybody could be so gracious there is a point in any conflict when fear transforms into hatred when everything to lose is lost when even older women lose compassion for men of their son's age. that is when violence becomes self-propelling when it reaches the point of no return when the mission creep still is being an option becomes the aim. this denarius unfair realistic and yet it wasn't acted upon.

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it was terrible. the city was on fire nobody knew what was happening. five days without a break we were terrified. and there was no communication only tanks all around us we came out to find georgian democracy in our streets. that any one of us could have left straight away but we knew that our first duty was to defend our homeland now that we've had peace since two thousand and one of the places reviving and coming back to normal but it since april twentieth twelve i've been the president of the republic of south ossetia i'm very pleased to see that all people are so positive about building and strengthening our country's state. we live in

s.a.t.'s and we love it everyone loves his homeland right but you know we didn't expect to live through five years of such peace and quiet. there's no war. but if your whole show common law should be. the face of your life you know. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure.

mass scenes broad gestures bold proclamations make little saakashvili was definitely a poli titian of the new generation young eloquent and charismatic not just speaking the same language but also saying things their western audience likes to hear. we are three. freedom loving nation and. even when his narrative was falling apart having russia as a boil was really strong this point banking on the audience's old prejudices and reinterpreting history to support his line. we're talking to both. the intrusion of russia into any countries bigger than we did. as they went into afghanistan in czechoslovakia in the sixty's. and the media world where

most wars are reported on from a safe distance it's no wonder that most western outlets sided with saakashvili who by the time had a live t.v. link set up in his own office. on the other hand public relations have never been russia's specialty in the days of the conflict many state institutions went into lockdown completely yielding the initiative to saakashvili. haven't been many events like this in our country for the past few decades. and if we're talking about the russian federation as an independent country i think it was the first time in its history. the struggle for global public opinion was in many ways just a theater of war i see a turn where exaggerated emotions and tree keep the public's attention i cannot even imagine i mean seeing a twelve year old go through all of this it must be but that also mentally doesn't

go. about the real suffering we can blame only one person and joe lieberman i'm not going georgian people i'm going to church and government and he has to resign and well that certainly wasn't the one. making war is all about personalities putin in this case is an american past time ultimately it wasn't that saakashvili was liked so much most american politicians could barely pronounce his last name because. billy president could be really president charged really but it conveniently demonize putin better think it's old american syria types about russia and its leaders making it as easy p.r. right for second but an excruciating army deal for his people. nellie whose husband and two children were killed while trying to flee the city couldn't speak for months. a few weeks after burying her family she found out that she was

pregnant and unlikely mercy of fortune that pulled her out of their base of grief but even years later she couldn't bring herself to mention her dad children's names . things are very bad for me in this life but i'm alive. life with them it wasn't god's will. live for as long as god wants. the georgian attack. the diplomatic war still raging barely a week after georgia launched its offensive. the blame squarely on russia even once criticizing saakashvili for his actions. stand with the people of georgia. and their democratically elected government with its actions in recent days russia has damaged his credibility and its relations with the nations of the

free world. bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the twenty first century. between russia and the united states were never . a more trusting trading barbs had long been normal communication. well i must admit that i was hoping for a more objective analysis. i never had any particular illusions. and russia was put trade as the aggressor but. it was only sometime later that they began to admit. though the russians were tough. didn't attack first now of course after all these commissions including mr tally of venus commission everything confirms what happened in reality and. this diplomatic wrangling

meant nothing for those caught in between iran when the bomb and subsided war continued to stare south in the face many now had to exude the partially decomposed bodies of their loved ones washed them trust them find coffins and finally give them a proper burial one of the most brutal experiences a mother can suffer. they didn't kill you. what did you do to those georgians. oh my boss i. just why did they show you from their tanks. the. georgian mothers two had their sons taken from them those center attack a sleeping c.d.o.

on behalf of georgian democracy returning home in pieces in the name of its territorial integrity. yet even that didn't seem enough for president saakashvili to reconsider his tactics that almost five hundred discussion about. american is to stop ongoing violence and deterring russian invasion as well as about. massive assistance programs for georgia from the united states in order to start immediately build a massive was not to rebuild cds and villages but to rebuild the army so that it. tacking those cities and villages again this is how this the subsequent years funding brain top rated in moscow. response came in last in two weeks in late

almost russia recognize the independence of south a city. because you have stressed many times that you consider this war to be the personal mistake of mr saakashvili that russia doesn't blame it on the people of georgia. why don't you have the same attitude toward the recognition of an dependence obviously your decision influences the people of georgia as a whole and it will probably do you still in many years to come. as otherwise we wouldn't be able to ensure the interests of our citizens or the national interests of the russian federation. just imagine that we would have to go in different directions after what happened. and his companions would start recovering their military power by the way they started receiving help of this kind right away much of the promulgated. for many years we held on to the hope that

the georgian government would be able to preserve this territory within its own borders so unfortunately and this is the crime but really committed he committed against the future of his people and against future generations of his people. he actually drove the final nail into what had been his very own country with his own hands he buried those hopes for five years on that decision still weighs heavily on the relationship between the two countries. really remains president he's no longer seen as the young bold reformer he once was rather the opposite is true. his political opponents who control parliament have taken steps to normalize relations with moscow but it's far from a real reference from all. over mr saakashvili is almost

off the political scene now and if the new georgian leadership is able to rebuild relations with the peoples of south a city in a positive boss would that really if occasion of his georgia ever be possible and if saw would russia recognize the territorial integrity of georgia. but the media in this world everything depends on the decisions people make me and the political will with the world everything depends on the will of the people that occupy these territories and on the will of georgians and their elected leaders. in the middle east. it's up to the will of the peoples of. on the move within that we want them to live in peace the one usually it's their form to choose what form it takes. we will not influence these processes when you win but we will of course defend the national interests of russia. while has healed its words

even though the taste of independence is still bitter sweet month long between georgia and russia south the city still struggling to find its feet as an independent nation unemployment is high and opportunities for growth a scarce trading with georgia could have offered the solution but few are ready to discuss it just here. every august these brides welcoming land turns black with families making their way to the cemetery. you are my boy. my golden boy. or i i or. it was a lose lose situation for everyone involved. georgians lost almost a fifth of their territory. south to say gained political independence but

failed to secure economic self-sufficiency and russians deny themselves an opportunity to normalize ties with its longtime neighbor and ally. and that is not to mention the unspeakable death people in all three countries have to go through all because of why the mad telegenic leader of great promise but couldn't find a better way to fulfill his historic mission. through an act of war. the

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