Dateline asks, was Georgia the hero or the villain during the recent nasty war between it and Russia?
Georgia was portrayed as the innocent victim, with Moscow cast as the evil empire-builder, but Video Journalist Nick Lazaredes questions whether Georgia – with the help of its Western allies – has rewritten the history of this short but brutal conflict. To present the other side of the story Lazaredes goes where very few media have ventured in recent weeks – the other breakaway Georgian province, Abkhazia. He secures an interview with Abkhazian President Sergey Bagapsh who says his people can no longer live within Georgia. Lazaredes then hitches a ride on a Russian military chopper to the disputed Kodori Gorge inside Abkaz territory. There he’s shown evidence that the Georgian army had built up a cache of weapons, supplied by the US and Israel, and were planning to attack Abkhazia.
