here’s eyewitness accounts in “guardian”. try to convince yourself that it’s all manufactured by kgb propaganda.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/10/georgia.russia5

“My relatives told me Georgian soldiers burnt to death a family of seven people in their apartment. An 18-year-old boy who climbed out into the street for a few moments was shot dead by a sniper.
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“We sat for four days in a cellar, without food and water,” she said. “When we came out we saw the whole street had burnt down. The city was gone – only ruins were left. It was a slaughter. First they bombed and shelled us. Then the tanks came in and levelled the city to the ground.”
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“When the firing died down I ran out to the home of my relatives on a different street,” she said. “I saw that the city hospital was completed destroyed, and around it lay corpses and injured people, a lot of them. And the injured lay there dying for three days because no one could get to them.”

etc.