Russian official alleges Georgian ethnic cleansing
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Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said Russian invasion of George was in response to ethnic cleansing by the Western-leaning Georgian government.
He said Georgians had killed 2,000 local citizens in a third attempt to eliminate and extricate locals in breakaway South Ossetia. "I accuse the Georgians leaders of ethnic cleansing because their political goal was to eliminate the population, a tiny population of Southern Ossetia," Ivanov said in a television interview with CNN on Monday. (AP)
