DAKAR, Aug 12 (Reuters) - International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has been contacted about the conflict in Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia and may launch a preliminary investigation, he said on Tuesday. "We have started to receive communications on this," Moreno-Ocampo told Reuters by telephone from The Hague. Asked if he would be launching a preliminary investigation, he said: "It is a possibility". He gave no further details. (Reporting by David Lewis; editing by Alistair Thomson)
A demonstrator holds a poster depicting Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the uniform of a revolutionary soldier during a rally in Tbilisi August 12, 2008. At least 150,000 protesters cheered ...
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