[lbo-talk] South Ossetia

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 10 23:47:16 PDT 2008


At least for a while, the media (Anglophone I mean) were using the 2000 figure, without mentioning the source, and implying that these people had been killed by Russia.

--- On Sun, 8/10/08, W. Kiernan <wkiernan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just went to Yahoo News to check how to spell
> "Tskhinvali" (glad I
> don't have pronounce it) and saw a news report
> headlined "Thousands
> forced to flee Russian bombing raids." Yet, as of a
> couple hours ago I
> had seen not a word nor image anywhere in the U.S. media
> for the last
> three days about 1,500-2,000 killed in Tskhinvali, nor of
> 30,000
> Ossetians who fled across the Russian border ahead of the
> Georgian
> armored advance.
>



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