Facing despair: A wounded man lies in the basement of a destroyed hospital in Tskhinvali on Aug. 10. Both sides have accused the other of war crimes, with Russia characterizing Georgia’s initial assault as a campaign of “ethnic cleansing.” On Aug. 13, Georgian officials countered that South Ossetian troops, aided by Russians, were carrying out massacres in Georgian villages, as ethnic conflict threatens to spread throughout the Caucasus.