MOSCOW. Nov 23 (Interfax-AVN) - South Ossetia's authorities claimed that Georgian special service officers posing as Ossetian peacekeepers were likely to stage provocations and terror attacks to upset stability in the conflict region.
"According to information available to us, the armed units being formed by Georgian special services, allegedly to protect "alternative" president Dmitry Sanakoyev, are in fact subversive groups trained to carry out terror attacks," the South Ossetian authorities said in a posting on their official website on Thursday.
The so-called Lower Ossetian army is comprised of Chechen-Kistins, they said. "Chechen appearance is the main criteria of selecting candidates for the armed forces," the South Ossetian authorities claimed.
"South Ossetia's special services have received information indicating that members of the subversive units will wear uniforms worn by Ossetian peacekeepers."
They claimed that Sanakoyev's guards, wearing North Ossetian peacekeepers' uniforms want to provoke clashes with Russian peacekeepers.
People wearing Ossetian uniforms are expected to attack a convoy accompanied by Russian servicemen, a monitoring group or a peacekeepers squad, which will create a pretext for Georgia to claim once again that "peacekeepers are inefficient and criminal," and to demand their replacement, the posting says.
The subversive groups are likely to stage a series of terror attacks in Georgian villages to provoke local protests against North Ossetian peacekeepers, it says.