The Pipeline War: Heartbreaking phone call from woman trapped as missiles fall

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1043214/The-Pipeline-War-Heartbreaking-phone-woman-trapped-missiles-fall.html

phone call from woman trapped as missiles fall
By Will Stewart and Polly Dunbar
Last updated at 10:28 PM on 09th August 2008

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The full horror of the carnage in South Ossetia was revealed last night in a heart-rending phone call from a woman trapped in the basement of her bombed-out home in the capital Tskhinvali with the body of her dead 20-year-old son lying beside her.

‘The planes are bombing us. I am sitting here in the basement. Fire is raging above us,’ Paisia Sytnik said in the call to a Russian TV station after the Georgian missile offensive which left up to 2,000 people dead.


‘Where are the peacekeepers? Let somebody come and help us. My son has been killed. Why does nobody come to save us?’


Ticket to Safety: Refugees flee from the horror in Tskhinvali in a bus

And in the Georgian town of Gori just 15 miles from the intense fighting in South Ossetia, residents told of the panic and terror that spread through the city yesterday after Russian fighter jets destroyed several residential apartments.


A 29-year-old tenant of one of the apartments called Nani spoke of the moment the bombs hit their home as she and her seven-year-old daughter hid under a table.


She said: ‘I thought the world was ending. I clutched my little girl to me, dived under the table and hid our faces on the floor. The building shook and I was sure it would collapse around us.



‘Now I am shaking and unable to stand up. My daughter and I were terrified. We got out of there but I don’t know how.



A man holds a part of a missile after the shelling of his South Ossetian village Dzhavaby by Georgian forces

‘Others weren’t so lucky. There was chaos and screaming. We saw a dead body and a lot of wounded people. An old granny was bleeding and crying. We cannot understand what is happening. I have Russian relatives – why are they bombing us?’


Koba Liklikadze, a correspondent from Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty’s Georgian service, said: ‘Close to the artillery base, we saw a dreadful sight. Apart from the base itself, two apartment blocks were on fire. The yard was full of bodies.


‘We heard terrible screams from the buildings. At that moment, one of the buildings was hit again and we ran to the cellar. When we emerged the scene was even worse.


'There were more people lying dead on the ground. According to our count, several dozen were killed – mostly women and among them a lot of elderly women.’


Meanwhile, a teacher told The Mail on Sunday last night how she led a group of 50 refugees, mostly schoolchildren, on a terrifying 100-mile journey from Tskhinvali to seek refuge in Beslan – the scene of one of the world’s worst terrorist atrocities.


Inga Dzhiloyeva, 44, said: ‘We had spent a horrifying night with non-stop bombing. My two daughters, Maria, who’s nine, and Margarita, who’s 11, feared we would be killed any minute.

[Cleita]

1. Awful!

K&R

[roguevalley]

12. Chechnya redux. Create a lie, bomb people, collect their mineral

resources. Fuck Putin, the animal.

[seemslikeadream]

2. Russian planes in new bombing raids

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24156459-5005961,00.html


Russian planes in new bombing raids

RUSSIAN aircraft have launched a new bombing raid on a Georgian-controlled part of the separatist Abkhazia region, Georgia's Public TV reported.

Russian aircraft attacked the village of Chkhalta in the Kodori Gorge region, the only part of Abkhazia controlled by Georgia, the report said.

In New York, the United Nations Security Council's 15 ambassadors met behind closed doors to hear a briefing from Edmond Mulet, the UN assistant secretary general for peacekeeping operations, on the latest developments in the volatile Caucasus region.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili told CNN his country was ready to take immediate steps towards a ceasefire in South Ossetia provided Russia stopped its attacks.

But while most UN ambassadors said they backed the idea of calling an immediate ceasefire to defuse the crisis, they said an agreement was unlikely to be reached immediately.

Indonesian Ambassador Marty Natalegawa said he "had no reason to be more optimistic today than we were yesterday," regarding agreement on a Belgian-drafted statement that would urge the warring sides to "show restraint and to refrain from any further acts of violence or force".

Yesterday, the Security Council failed for the second time to reach agreement on the Belgian draft.

[Muttocracy]

3. kick - I'm glad there are a few journalists there to report. nt

[malaise]

4. Politicians and corporations gone mad

I hate this planet's leaders.

Good coverage here.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_4670000/newsid_4679900/4679986.stm?bw=nb&mp=wm&news=1&nol_storyid=4679986&bbcws=1

[ladjf]

11. Somehow, socio-paths have been able to seize control of the world.

How is this happening?

[bluesmail]

14. They must breed among themselves. Then marry another

sociopath. Have children, then continue the cycle. Power attracts the sociopaths. They stick together Le Cage Aux Folles.

[Arctic Dave]

5. I do not want detract from what is going on in Ossetia

but I am amazed at the much, much different tone of the news being reported from there. When bombs fall on innocent people that are from British and American warplanes the news seems, how shall I say it, milquetoast.

[otherlander]

6. Good point...

I wish the media gave this much attention to the effects of clusterbombing in the War on Terror.

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[JNelson6563]

8. Horrifying.

:cry:

[Solly Mack]

9. K&R

People dying all over :(

[LibertyorDeath]

10. Thanks

K&R!

[HamdenRice]

13. If Alabama seceded from the Union, then Northern Ala tried to rejoin the US and Alabama invaded ...

what do you think the U.S. would do?

Oh, yeah. What if the government of China had gained a great deal of influence in the breakaway Alabama Republic, and was almost completely funding its armed forces that managed to keep United States troops from regaining control of Alabama.

Now suppose north Alabama gets sick of being part of a breakaway republic and tries to rejoin the Union, but the Chinese trained armed forces of the breakaway republic of Alabama invades northern Alabama to prevent it from rejoining the Union. Do you think the US armed forces might aid the forces of northern Alabama in their attempt to rejoin the Union?

I think violence and militarism are always wrong, and Putin is a violent amoral sociopath.

But I am amazed at the lack of context that is provided in the reporting of this story. If the setting were in the US, we would probably see this catastrophe with a little more nuance.