Are the police in Georgia (the country, not the usas state) brave, or just crazy?
Unarmed town turns back Russian troops When a group of Russian soldiers drove up to the outskirts of this small town tucked away in the verdant folds of the Caucasus Mountains… By Alex Rodriguez Chicago Tribune PREV of NEXT SACHKHERE, Georgia — When a group of Russian soldiers drove up to the outskirts of this small town tucked away in the verdant folds of the Caucasus Mountains, Georgians here had no means to stop them — no guns, no armor, no barricades. But locals knew what had happened in nearby Georgian villages when Russian soldiers swept in. Armed South Ossetian, Chechen and Cossack men came in as well and ravaged those villages in a looting spree that left scores of homes in flames. So the people of Sachkhere said no. Earlier this week, more than 250 Sachkhere Georgians amassed to block the town’s main road in the event that Russian troops tried to enter Sachkhere by force. At a police checkpoint outside the town, local Georgian police, unarmed, flatly told the Russian troops
