Austrailian Broadasting Corp via AFP (Agence France-Presse) – Monday 11 August, 2008
Russia’s Education Minister says authorities will
“look for children and people who are hiding in basements”
(AFP: Natalia Kolesnikova)
A 40-year-old woman stands in the middle of a footpath and bursts into tears after arriving with a convoy of refugees in the embattled Georgian enclave of South Ossetia.
“When the Russians arrived, we were so happy, and after they bombed them [the Georgians],” said the woman called Meri, referring to the Russian assault and air raids on Georgia that forced Tbilisi to pull back its troops from South Ossetia.
She arrived at Java, about 20 kilometres from the main city of Tskhinvali, with a group of refugees, mostly women, escorted by Russian soldiers. . .
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