South Ossetia slams European Court of Human Rights

The refusal of the European Court of Human Rights to consider the
complaints of South Ossetian citizens and relatives of Russian
peacekeepers against Georgia demonstrates a disrespectful attitude to
human rights, the South Ossetian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Murat
Dzhidoyev said, RIA Novosti reports.

Commenting on the court’s closing of 1,549 cases on the Georgian
aggression in August 2008, the minister called the court politicized
and aimed at neglecting the crimes of Saakashvili against humanity,
South Ossetian citizens and Russian peacekeepers.

It is also an attempt to disavow the conclusions made by the EU
commission headed by Hidy Talyavini.

The statement by the Strasbourg Court, published on Monday, says that
there were over 3,300 individual complaints against Georgia, initiated
by the Russian military of the peacekeeping battalion in Tskhinvali,
their relatives. The case include violation of the right for life,
forbidding of humiliation, the right for private and family life,
legal protection and forbidding of discrimination.

The court requested more facts from the complainants twice in 2010,
left without an answer. It was followed by closing of the cases,
according to article 37 of the European Convention on Human Rights