S Ossetia votes on independence

mkpdavies · 12-11-2006, 08:37 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6140448.stm

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The tiny former Soviet region of South Ossetia has held an independence referendum which it hopes will help it break away from Georgia.

South Ossetia has been struggling for independence from Georgia since the war in the early 1990s but has failed to win international recognition.

Georgia terms the vote illegitimate and has vowed to win South Ossetia back.

Yet still the elite think forced world unification is the way to go.

Independent UKIP · 14-11-2006, 12:53 AM

Whilst it should be our UK business to comment not the business of the EU they were entirely correct in what they said on this so called referendum: [it]

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contradicts Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders.

Later the article says:

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But people in some of the ethnic Georgian enclaves, which lie within South Ossetia, voted in what they described as alternative elections, which seemed designed to undermine the credibility of the referendum on independence.

Some invisible barely relevant minorities who don't really belong there in the first place undermining the will of the South Ossetian people/nation??? That is a possible re-reading of the BBC report.

Sounds to me not dissimilar to the Yugoslav conflict in reporting and realities eg different sides in Bosnia had referedums but only one (unconstitutional referendum) matters to the west. Serbs in eg Croatia were cleansed from their ancient historical areas but that was ok because they happened to be within the artifically created borders of Croatia & didn't want to be part of that state.

South Ossetia could well be in the news again soon.

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