Fact-Finding

The EU fact-finding mission reported in September 2009 that Georgian claims of a large-scale Russian incursion into South Ossetia before the Georgian offensive “could not be substantiated” European Union, Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia, 23.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

A 9/15/09 report by the UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict found Israel guilty of numerous war crimes against innocent civilians.

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The EU fact-finding mission reported in September 2009 that Georgian claims of a large-scale Russian incursion into South Ossetia before the Georgian offensive “could not be substantiated” European Union, Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia, 23.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

However, monitors from the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe who were based in Tskhinvali did not record any outgoing fire that evening before the Georgian assault, and firing BM-21 rockets into a densely populated area could not help but kill civilians Peter Finn, “A Two-Sided Descent Into Full-Scale War,” Washington Post, August 17, 2001; European Union, Independent International Fact-Finding Mission, 23–4.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

However, monitors from the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe who were based in Tskhinvali did not record any outgoing fire that evening before the Georgian assault, and firing BM-21 rockets into a densely populated area could not help but kill civilians Peter Finn, “A Two-Sided Descent Into Full-Scale War,” Washington Post, August 17, 2001; European Union, Independent International Fact-Finding Mission, 23–4.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

The EU fact-finding mission reported in September 2009 that Georgian claims of a large-scale Russian incursion into South Ossetia before the Georgian offensive “could not be substantiated” European Union, Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia, 23.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

However, monitors from the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe who were based in Tskhinvali did not record any outgoing fire that evening before the Georgian assault, and firing BM-21 rockets into a densely populated area could not help but kill civilians Peter Finn, “A Two-Sided Descent Into Full-Scale War,” Washington Post, August 17, 2001; European Union, Independent International Fact-Finding Mission, 23–4.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

However, monitors from the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe who were based in Tskhinvali did not record any outgoing fire that evening before the Georgian assault, and firing BM-21 rockets into a densely populated area could not help but kill civilians Peter Finn, “A Two-Sided Descent Into Full-Scale War,” Washington Post, August 17, 2001; European Union, Independent International Fact-Finding Mission, 23–4.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

The EU fact-finding mission reported in September 2009 that Georgian claims of a large-scale Russian incursion into South Ossetia before the Georgian offensive “could not be substantiated” European Union, Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia, 23.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

The author's observations confirm the findings of the 2009 Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia: Everyone lost.

Little War, Big Consequences in Georgia Adam Daniel Rotfeld 2010