Letter: War in Georgia

Fri, 08/22/2008 10:18 AM  |  Reader's Forum

I just spent a couple of months in Baku, Azerbaijan and Tbilisi, Georgia, and happened to be in Tbilisi when Georgian troops attacked and massacred civilians in South Ottesia.

The Georgian public was against Michael Savaskilli, who was looking for trouble with their powerful neighbors up north, and some even said he was out of his mind messing with the Russians.

The questions are: What motivated Savaskilli to take on the Russians? Who was behind him? And who gained from this conflict?

Most of the scholars I have spoken to in Georgia and Vietnam knew that Americans and the West were the real masterminds -- aiming to gain control over oil fields in Central Asia and Iran.

After all, the world now is in such a mess because of the Americans. The West is using Michael Sakasvilli as a puppet. Just look at his face when he appeared on CNN and the BBC. I have never seen a man so scared and pale -- even trembling.

I would agree with the press attache of the Russian Embassy in Jakarta, Andrey Osokin, in saying The Jakarta Post tend to have been biased in their coverage of this issue.

I was there, and while I didn't see the actual attack, most people know that the Russians didn't start the fire. The Georgians did, with the West acting as a puppet master. At least the reporters in Vietnam tended to tell the news as it really was.

JASON SUSILO
Ho Chi Minh City

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