Doctors forced underground in besieged Tskhinval
Published: 17 September, 2008, 13:11
During the war in South Ossetia the only hospital in the region was destroyed by Georgian artillery fire. Doctors were forced to treat the wounded in the basement. Short of medicine, bandages and even water they did their best to follow their Hippocratic
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Ossetian plea for salvation to French envoySouth Ossetians regard Georgians as aggressors who wanted to wipe them from the face of Earth, as French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner found out while visiting a refugee camp. |
