25.02.2009 10:10 | O. Kudukhov: “The West Cannot Hide the Truth Any More”

“The Europe learned about the tragedy of South Ossetia. The West cannot hide the truth any more and tends to a recognition of our correctness”, - said Oleg Kudukhov, the coordinator of the National Forum “Ossetia accuses”, on October, 16th for RIA "News" at the press conference, devoted to the book’s publication.

As Kudukhov noted, the active members of "The National forum" were holding the pickets in Strasbourg and Warsaw during the representation of this book there. As he said, many people took part in the pickets including the ethnic Frenchmen and Germans and also the representatives of Ossetian Diaspora.

As also Kudukhov has told, his compatriots had complaints to Europeans. In particular, it is proved that OSCE mission and the Red Cross, which worked in Tskhinval left South Ossetia in the rush a few days before the beginning of the war.

“It means, the Georgian representation of OSCE knew about the attack and warned their people about it”, -  Kudukhov made such a conclusion. And the Ossetians are worried about only one thing in this situation: why had they not been warned too? Why didn’t Europeans try to interfere with the conflict?

Alexander Brod, Paul Astakhov, Sergey Ryakhovsky, the members of Public Chamber, and Natalia Rykova, an executive director of the Moscow bureau on human rights also participated in press-conference.

Paul Astakhov, in particular, has told: “According to the international law, there are no resolutions which can limit the right to answer if you have struck”. "The only impression of Strasbourg’s reaction is - utter barefaced cynicism”, - Ryakhovsky has declared.

Natalia Rykova demanded to create the international tribunal for the condemnation of the Georgian aggression and she noted, that the Russian Public Prosecution Office`s Investigatory Committee was still working under gathering of the evidences of Ossetian genocide.

Translated by Tatiana Inozemtseva