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The Russian Prosecutors Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case over the fact of murder of Russian citizens in South Ossetia under the Criminal Code article genocide, Igor Komissarov, an aide to the committees chairman, told Itar-Tass. The Investigative Committees main department has instituted criminal proceedings under Article 357 of the Russian Criminal Code- genocide based on received information on actions taken by the Georgian armed forces aimed at the liquidation of citizens of Russia residing in South Ossetia and Ossetians by nationality by way of murders and infliction of heavy damage to health, said Komissarov. About 100 Russian investigators are continuing work in Tskhinval at present probing into the killings of Russian citizens and Russian peacekeepers. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvilis actions in South Ossetia are a war crime and an act of genocide against Ossetians, Russian permanent representative to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said earlier. At least 2,500 people have already fallen victim to a humanitarian catastrophe in South Ossetia. Since the entire population of South Ossetia is 73,000, proportionately this is the biggest act of genocide in the history of Europe since World War II, Rogozin told a briefing on Monday. Our demands are that the Georgian troops should leave the area where the peacekeepers stay, a ceasefire should be announced, and an agreement on the non-use of force should be signed, he said. Georgia is showing disrespect for international law and notions of humanity in the conduct of military actions, Rogozin said. Some day, Russia will raise the problem of genocide of the Ossetian people and ethnic cleansings that Georgian forces have carried out in the unrecognised republic of South Ossetia, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday as he addressed a joint news conference together with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Quite naturally, the problem of ethnic cleansings there does exist, and weve been quite resolute in raising the issue and will continue raising it in the future to expose the people responsible for them, Medvedev said. However, some of our partners ask us in private conversations for some reason to refrain from raising it, he said. Maybe, they feel shy. International law qualifies such problems as a crime, like the slaughter of thousands of people, and it is called genocide, Medvedev said. More than that, weve said in the past were surprised to see the situations where one individual who killed thousands of people is described as a terrorist and a moron while another such individual is treated as a legitimately elected president of a sovereign country, he said. International law doesnt have provisions for the use of double standards, and we must observe this in political practices, Medvedev said.
RUSSIA OPENS CRIMINAL CASE ON SOUTH OSSETIA EVENTS
2The Russian Prosecutors Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case over the fact of murder of Russian citizens in South Ossetia under the Criminal Code article genocide, Igor Komissarov, an aide ...
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