From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/18/2007 10:10 AM Georgia confronts anger over killing of Russian soldiers Moscow – The government of Georgia has now to confront both harsh criticism and questioning from Russia over a military raid of Georgian troops on Abkhazians in the province of Tkuarchal that left two Russian soldiers dead.
The confrontation between Georgia and Russia results from a late official finding in a report by UNOMIG that the September 20 attack killed, apart from two Abkhazian soldiers, two Russian peace force members. The report said that two Russian soldiers were shot dead from a close distance. Experts are led by this finding to the conclusion that the soldiers were shot dead after they were injured.
UNOMIG is a sub-organization of the United Nations established in 1993 to observe compliance on both parts of Georgia and Abkhazia with the ceasefire.
The fighting led to the abduction of seven Abkhazian soldiers by Georgians.
‘Deliberate murder’
Russia accused in the wake of the report release Georgia of deliberate murder. “The report shows that murders were committed within the sites of Georgian Special Forces. This must be taken as a deliberate act of killing without the slightest mercifulness ever shown. The murderers must get the punishment that matches their offence,” an official statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Admitting that two Russian soldiers were killed, Georgian official tend to remain reticent until the report officially gets released.
The fighting occurred not in the region under Abkhazian control but in <PLACE w:st="on">Upper Kodor</PLACE> , according to the Georgian administration. This way, Georgia sought to report to the international community an accusation against both Abkhazia and Russia of sabotaging the region.
However, the UNOMIG report put Abkhazia in the right. The report said that the fighting occurred at a military training camp in the Abkhazian province of Tkuarchal, some 300 meters</METRICCONVERTER> inwards from the border, but definitely not in Kodor. (Agency Caucasus)
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