Friday, May 2, 2008

Hey, Control Your Jets

Hey, Control Your Jets

By

Evan Campbell

The country of Georgia blames Russia for shooting down an unmanned spy plane or a UAV was shot down over separatist region Abkhazia in Georgia. After a claimed Russian Fighter Jet takes off in Georgia. The Pro-western government of Georgia brings these claims up during a tension between Russian backing the separatists movement. A video shot by a camera on the UAV shows clearly a fighter jet come in behind and launching a missile at the UAV. (A link to video below) Then also in the video released by the Georgian Air Force the fighter is shown on radar to fly back to Russian airspace. But the disturbing part is the Fighter takes off in Gudauta in Abkhazia, Georgia. That is an illegal act set by the negotiation set up in 1994.

The negotiation set up 1994 is at risk of going to the trash dump. This negotiation was set up by Russia to stop the fighting in the disputed territories of Georgia. During the fighting some 250,000 Georgians were ethnically cleansed in genocide by the Abkhaz separatists. Russia stepped in and created a ceasefire agreement between, backing separatists and Georgian forces. The ceasefire requires no Russian Forces entering the disputed area.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/04/22/georgia.russia/index.html#cnnSTCVideo