The Defense Ministry said that one of their helicopters was gunned down during this morning's assault — the third chopper to be shot down by separatists in just three days.
During the war Russia backed separatists in two breakaway regions of Georgia - South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Georgia has had a turbulent post-Soviet experience, to put it mildly, beset by separatist conflicts in two territories, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and riven by a civil war that left the centre of the capital, Tbilisi, in ruins.
This war has pushed Georgia further away from Europe". Georgia has had a turbulent post-Soviet experience, beset by separatist conflicts in two territories, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and riven by a civil war that left the capital, Tbilisi, in ruins.
According to the lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in Washington, the crimes occurred during the latest campaign by the Indonesian military to quash an insurgency by separatists in Aceh, an impoverished region of four million people in western Indonesia.
The terror unleashed by separatists in the eastern industrial Donbas region aimed to demonstrate the opposite.
There are armed separatists in five of the seven states.
A3 Indonesian Issues an Apology President Megawati Sukarnoputri gave her first major speech as president, apologizing for human rights abuses by the military in two separatist rebellions and called on the armed forces to reform itself.
Instead, three Syrias are emerging: one loyal to the government, to Iran and to Hezbollah; one dominated by Kurds with links to Kurdish separatists in Turkey and Iraq; and one with a Sunni majority that is heavily influenced by Islamists and jihadis.
Residents of Alchevsk in eastern Ukraine have taken part in the city's first "People's Court" organised by separatist rebels, in the trial of two alleged rapists.
