Amanda Kokoeva

Amanda Kokoeva — US citizen, living in San Francisco area, whose appearance on Fox television sparked debates about Georgian-Ossetian conflict and media objectivity.

Amanda become known because of the YouTube video "The 12 Year Old Girl That Tells the Truth about Georgia", which was a record of her August 13 interview on Fox News. Amanda was in Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) capital, when on of August the 2008 South Ossetia war started. After a couple of questions (Asked by Shepard Smith) about what happened in Tskhinvali, Amanda said:

Before I say anything else, I just want to say that I was running from Georgian troops bombing our city, not Russian troops. I want to say "Thank you" to Russian troops for helping us out.

Shepard Smith was shocked because of what Amanda was saying. After that, Amanda's aunt Laura Tedeeva-Koreviski, made another testimony:

Main thing I want to say on the television... I want you to know to whom to blame of in this conflict. And that is Mr. Saakashvili who started this war, and Mr. Saakashvili who is aggressor. ...and who ...and who ...two days, my people, Ossetian people were killed and bombed, and two thousand people were killed in one day.

Smith stopped Amanda speech in the middle, telling that it's time for advertisement. After ad block the iterview was prolonged for another 30 seconds, and the speech was again cut down.

Youtube censorship

People noticed changes in video stats on Youtube. After the video had been viewed over 300,000 times, the counter was reset to a couple thousands. The numerous video comments were also deleted.

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