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Russia ethnic cleansing in Georgia 2008

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European Court of Human Rights has found Russia guilty of ethnic cleansing of Georgian civilians following the ceasefire of the August 2008 war from r/worldnews

https://agenda.ge/en/news/2021/167

Georgia has won the 2008 war case against Russia in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

The court released its judgement earlier today which says that Russia violated several articles of the European Convention on Human rights during the conflict and carried out ethnic cleansing of Georgians.

The court said that Russia violated the following articles:

  • The right to life (Article 2).
  • Prohibition of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (Article 3).
  • The right to liberty and security (Article 5).
  • The right to protection of private and family life (Article 8).
  • Protection of property (Article 1 of Additional Protocol 1);
  • Freedom of movement (Article 2 of Protocol No. 4).

reconciliation on the Balkans

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Serbia’s Brand of Reconciliation: Embracing Old War Criminals

MATTHEW BRUNWASSER datetime=”2017-11-24T14:53:57-05:00″>NOV. 23, 2017

Observers also note the return of the political language of the 1990s by some senior Serbian government officials as they attack dissenters as traitors, spies and enemies.

The European Union warned against letting a war criminal give a lecture to the academy, but the general received high praise from the defense minister, Mr. Vulin, a former close political ally of Mr. Milosevic’s widow, Mirjana Markovic.

The public support for a war criminal appalled human rights activists and Western officials.

The American ambassador to Serbia, Kyle Scott, posted on Twitter in Serbian: “Unfortunately, months of work on improving Serbia’s image in the U.S. can be undermined with just one statement.”

Russian propaganda had influenced how the Serbian government portrays the difficult democratic reforms required by the bloc: they are cast as “pressure” from Brussels, enabling Serbian politicians to present resistance as patriotism.