Fate looks up for wounded Gori girl after war - 21 Sep 08

The image of Lika Kekuashvili, a four-year-old Georgian girl, pulled, blackened and limp, from the rubble of her home during Georgia's war with Russia will stay with many Al Jazeera viewers.

Our correspondent Jonah Hull was there when Lika was rescued, tracked her down in hospital a couple of weeks later, and now sees what has become of her after the war.

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[LILUCKSMO80]

poor kid iw wish i could help her

[Cyberclubber05]

Gori is close to Ossetian territory, and Georgia is small so using any territory in Georgia is closed to civilians but Gori where bombs were dropped is 25 miles away from Gori Army dislocation. So Russia did it to "punish" georgia as Evil Putin says"!

[MovieMad007]

I mean yes the USSR style of Governance is oppressive that too is true, but on the other hand it was fair because everyone at least had shelter and was able to get food (granted not fabulous choices) but at least it held disparate religions, cultures together, and the system came down hard on those who rocked the boat or tried to destabilise the situation. I don't know - just a few thoughts. I knew a young lady (very attractive here at uni in the UK, and she was from Georgia)

[MovieMad007]

I don't want to start any arguments here, but would all this suffering in places like Georgia, Ossetia, Chechnya etc have been avoided had the USSR stayed in-tact? The philosophy I am trying to get at here is that I believe the problems within the old Soviet Republics are down to their lack of economic skill and knowedge of Capitalist infrastructure. So the only route they can take is through corruption because basically the countries are not ready or are unable to cope with capitalist ways

[MrDimkakz]

@bandanavillain Dude have a look at Iraq and Afghanistan do you see anything different 

[kaabaa84]

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[ZeightS]

And how many NIKAs were there in S.Ossetia dying during the war? And who is sending them help???? 

the world cares only for western politics and they show on the news only what is called pro-western....

[ALAVERDI9]

Thank you, you are doing extraordinary work.

[bandanavillain]

these are the results of russian "peacekeeping" mission

[heisafraidofspiders]

thanks putin, medvedev, and all the brainwashed putinoids

thank you very much

[antoshahorosha]

I find it very contradictory that the current government "released" her mother, considering that she probably ended up there because of the current regime, and it is because of the current regime this has happened. That drug addict should be hanged (Blood Revenge).

[dragonrasp]

You people are so fast to jump to death as the solution to all problems...don't you think that fucked up mentallity is perhaps the REAL PROBLEM?

Death to nobody. It seems when we try to kill someone little girls lose their eye.

I wish every soldier on Earth would just throw his gun in the mud right now and go home to build a better and more peaceful life.

War will get us nowhere.