From: MSN Nicknamepsychoteddybear24 (Original Message) Sent: 9/6/2007 10:00 AM
GEORGIANS ANGRY AT ABKHAZIA PEACEKEEPERS
A series of confrontations between Georgian locals and Russian peacekeepers
raises the temperature near ceasefire line.
By Tamuna Shonia in Zugdidi and Natia Kuprashvili in Tbilisi
The Georgian authorities are stepping up a campaign against Russian peacekeepers
on their territory, highlighting a recent series of incidents in which they say
the soldiers have abused the local population.
The most recent row has been over South Ossetia, where two Russian soldiers
serving in the North Ossetian battalion of the joint peacekeeping force were
detained by the Georgians last week.
The two men are still in custody after the Georgian authorities accused them of
illegally detaining four Georgian television journalists and three other people.
The Russian foreign ministry called the arrest of the soldiers a "gross
violation" of the 1994 protocol that established the joint peacekeeping ...
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