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MOSCOW (AFP)--The Moscow envoy of the rebel Georgian region of South Ossetia accused Tbilisi of "ethnic cleansing" as Georgian forces continued their attack on the region, the Interfax news agency reported.

"The goal of today's Georgian political elite is ethnic cleansing, to clear the territory of South Ossetians, which Georgia's armed forces are doing right now," Dmitry Medoyev, the breakaway region's envoy to Russia, told reporters at a press conference in Moscow, Interfax reported.

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