On Sun, 10 Aug 2008, W. Kiernan wrote:
> If the Russian report of the death toll from the massive artillery
> attack on Tskhinvali are correct (I'm aware that's a big "if") then the
> Georgians managed to butcher two percent of the population of South
> Ossetia in two days flat.
FWIW, that was the local Ossetian report, not the Russian report, and no one, including the Russians, seems to be repeating it anymore. Putin at his big press conference on the N/S Ossetian border the next day talked about dozens dead, hundreds wounded and tens of thousands fleeing.
Michael