GORI

Over the last few days the Georgian city of Gori has been mentioned as being the focus of the Russian military operations. The media portrays this as ruthless aggression against a civilian population. What they fail to mention is that Gori is the main Georgian military site, with installations built in civilian areas. Those installations were also recently upgraded to NATO standards in anticipation of Georgia joining NATO.

Gori was no doubt the main source of weapons and troops for the ruthless assault on South Ossetia, and in Russian eyes therefore had to be attacked. It is very sad that civilians were killed there, and is why the media is focusing on the hundred or so civilian deaths in the NATO military base town of Gori, rather then the 2000 or so civilian deaths in Tskhinvali.

I regret all civilian deaths in the recent war.

But who started it?

Who shelled civilians in their beds in the dead of night?

Saakashvili has still got a lot of explaining to do. And by the sounds of it, Georgians are starting to ask him to explain himself.