civilians vulnerable after hostilities in georgia (the one way over there)...

after months of increased tension, and recent low-level hostilities, the conflict between georgia and the breakaway region of south ossetia escalated in the early morning of 8 august 2008...the fighting became the most serious confrontation since the civil war between the two was concluded through a truce in 1992...

in fighting in the disputed region of south ossetia over the past couple of weeks, heavy civilian casualties have been reported...although reports of civilian dead and wounded vary, with numbers and circumstances difficult to independently verify, media reports and footage indicates damage to civilian objects as a result of the military attacks from both sides...

for example, in tskhinvali, capital of south ossetia, dozens of civilian buildings are said to have been destroyed as a result of attacks by georgian forces, including residential homes, administrative buildings, a toy shop, university and the republican hospital...on 9 august, russian bombs hit a residential area in gori, a town in central georgia...

to check out this digestable update on civilian vulnerabilities just click here...

peace out <3