More than 150,000 citizens of Georgia are with out homes. This is what the International Report in The New York Times had said on Tuesday, September 2, 2008. When war started between Georgia and Russia; refugees left their homes and villages in search of a safe place to stay. Some three weeks after the war had erupted many are still stranded in tents at the United Nations refugee camps or at relatives houses in other countries. Many had said that they may never return to their homes in fear of confrontation happening again. One woman said “Men in black masks burned down my home, and if I hadn’t hid in my garden, I would have been dead…”. To date there are well over 4,500 refugees in the UN camps.
-The war was prompted when the Georgian military attacked South Ossetia on August 7.
-This made the Russian’s invade Georgia.
-Many refugees have attempted to return to their burned down houses to start rebuilding them, but the Russian army is turning them away unless they
ADOPTED RUSSIAN CITIZENSHIP.
I personally believe that this whole war is unnecessary and wrong. The people of Georgia had nothing to do with the invasion and they just want to return to their homes. But now there’s a quarter of a million people with-out homes.
Article written by: Dan Bilefsky and Michael Schwirtz
The New York Times
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Page A5: International Report
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