From The Australian:

DOZENS of haggard Georgian captives were marched through the rebel city of South Ossetia today as separatists called on Tbilisi to recover the rotting corpses of its soldiers.

The mostly elderly men - apparently all civilians - walked with their heads bowed and their hands behind their backs, escorted by armed guards.

Locals stopped to take pictures on their mobile phones. Some pointed and laughed as the detainees marched through Tskhinvali.

One woman said: “Those are the prisoners? But they’re just old men!”

Seventeen of the men were brought to the courtyard of the separatist territory’s defence ministry to sweep up shards of glass and rubble from the fierce fighting between Georgian forces against Russian troops and rebels.

Thirty others were brought to a base on the northern edge of the city, walking through clouds of dust as Russian military helicopters flew low overhead. They were taken to a warehouse to unload food aid for local people.

“If your house had been destroyed by Georgians, if you were left with just the clothes on your back, wouldn’t you do the same?” said one drunk South Ossetian militiaman, referring to the detention of the Georgians.