Russia's involvement in the conflict. South Ossetia

"Russia's involvement in the conflict is indeed completely legal and actually mandatory according to international agreements between Georgia, Russia and South Ossetia.
I suppose this may indeed come as a surprise to many of you. In accordance with international agreements, including the agreement of 1999 between Georgia and South Ossetia's separatists, Russia does not only execute peacemaking functions, but is obliged, in case one party breaks the cease-fire agreement, to defend the other party, which is exactly what we are doing in case with South Ossetia. What I find really striking is that this piece of information gets censored in Western 'free' media and is never reported.
Another point I would like to make is about the right of some nations such as Georgia to exert their right to be independent but others like Ossetia to be deprived of it. In the former USSR, some nations had the status of 'republics' and in legal terms were equal to Russia (e.g. Georgia, Ukraine, etc.). However, others such as North Ossetia and South Ossetia were autonomous republics within Russia and Georgia respectively. It was a system created by Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and persisted until the breakup of the Soviet Union. What bewilders me is that all the freedom and democracy loving Canadians who probably abhor Stalin use Stalin's criterion of determining which nations have a right to form independent counties and which other do not.
By the way, why are democratic leaders in North America and Western Europe covering up for crimes against humanity and possibly genocide committed by the Georgian government? Does anyone realize that in a single day about 1,400 people have died, a number that constitutes 2 % of its entire population and about 30,000 since Thursday have fled South Ossetia (roughly 45 % of the population)? "

source: georgi81