| Russian invaders engaged in looting and robberies in Abkhazia |
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| Written by smoc | |||
| Saturday, 28 November 2009 22:10 | |||
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"Furthermore, a winter products were also taken away from residents, loaded onto URAL army truck and driven off to occupation checkpoint", told in the report. Similar cases are well known in Georgia, as Georgian Media is repeatedly reporting such cases. According to their data, in October Russian invaders broke into school of Tagilon village, Galsk district of Abkhazia, found Georgian books and had beaten teachers. Sometime later, the invaders on APCs attacked a bus with Georgians on, and took all the crops of peanuts and other products away from civilians. Just recently a TV channel "Rustavi 2" came out with news that state Russian invaders broke into a school, in village of Nabakevi, located in Galsk district of Abkhazia, where they took few of transports and computerized machinery, books with Georgian writing were also seized off the teachers. Other than that, according to the same information source, in villages of Sida and Nabakevi, 5 of Georgians families have also been victims of Russian looting and robbery. Russian troops had broke into house in middle of night and started searching form gold jewelry, on the way the also broke into back of the gardens and picked all the products, that families had collected for the winter. Loaded onto truck and driven off in unknown direction.
The looting did not end up without casualties, as a result all members of families were tighten to chairs.
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Sandra Kalniete, the former Latvian ambassador to the United Nations, UNESCO and France, writing on Prague Post (hat tip: Robert Amsterdam): While Russia has always played a significant role in Europe, relations took a new dimension after European Union expansion. Not only because the EU’s border extended substantially eastward, but also because the 10 new member states have a unique relationship with Russia from a long and often forced coexistence. Now, Western Europe has access to expertise based not only on theoretical assumptions but practical experience. This advantage, if used properly, could benefit the entire EU and contribute to a sound and effective plan of cooperation with Russia. |
