Although Russia may have had the upper hand in the South Ossetian conflict, most experts agree that the country lost the war on the informational front. As the Russian parliamentary commission reported the number of civilian casualties in Tskhinvali at 1,600, this figure was disputed by Human Rights Watch, which claimed that only 44 corpses were brought to Tskhinvali’s clinics. Overall, it appears that Western organizations tend to underestimate the scale of destruction brought on by the Georgian attack.
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