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South Ossetia floods rights court with Georgia writs
7 October 08

From Reuters

LONDON - The European Court of Human Rights has received nearly 2,000 applications from South Ossetians complaining of illegal treatment at the hands of Georgia, the president of the court, Jean-Paul Costa, said on Monday.

The complaints have been filed over the past two months, since Russia and Georgia went to war over the breakaway Georgian region on Aug. 7, and underline the extent of the legal minefields each country is trying to lay for the other.

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