{"id":194057,"date":"2008-10-28T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/28\/hrw-alleges-georgian-war-crimes-in-south-ossetia\/"},"modified":"2008-10-28T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T04:12:00","slug":"hrw-alleges-georgian-war-crimes-in-south-ossetia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/28\/hrw-alleges-georgian-war-crimes-in-south-ossetia\/","title":{"rendered":"HRW Alleges Georgian War Crimes in South Ossetia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/worldservice\/news\/2008\/10\/081028_whewell_ossetia.shtml\">BBC radio broadcast<\/a> (at link), but the money quote is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#000099;\">Research by the organisation Human Rights Watch <span style=\"color:#330033;\">[HRW]<\/span> ints to indiscriminate use of force by the Georgian military and the possible deliberate targeting of civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Indiscriminate use of force is a violation of the Geneva Convention and serious violations are considered to be war crimes.<br \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No big surprise here, this was obvious in the first few hours of the war, before, you know, the Russians eradicated the Georgian military.<\/p>\n<p>It marks a turn around for HRW though.  In the early days following the war, they accused the Russians of using cluster bombs&#8230;.Until it was revealed that the physical evidence that they had was all ofS weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a BBC radio broadcast (at link), but the money quote is: Research by the organisation Human Rights Watch [HRW] ints to indiscriminate use of force by the Georgian military and the possible deliberate targeting of civilians. Indiscriminate use of force is a violation of the Geneva Convention and serious violations are considered to be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,984,1033,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-europe","category-russia","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}