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MOSCOW — Fewer than 100 civilians died in Georgia’s breakaway province of South Ossetia during the war last month, human-rights activists said Thursday — a far smaller number than Russian and South Ossetian officials have claimed.
Tatiana Lokshina, a Russian researcher for the U.S.-based group Human Rights Watch who visited the region, said trips to a hospital, a cemetery and conversations with residents failed to corroborate claims by Russia and its South Ossetian allies that thousands of civilians were killed.
