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Mon 09 Sep 2008Aftermath of war in Caucasus
Madam, - Condoleezza Rice has a point (front-page report, August 27th). It is appalling to think that a world superpower has provided military training to separatist rebels, encouraged them to engage in warfare so as to break away, and backed them up with massive firepower, killing an unknown number of people and displacing thousands of innocent civilians. But if we are appalled that Russia has done so in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, how can we accept the fact that the United States and other Nato powers have done so in Kosovo?
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