Unix Timestamp: 1218585600
Wednesday, August 13. 2008, 12:00:00 AM UTC

The investigation of what Russian officials called a 'genocide' started in South Ossetia. Some witnesses say that a church with civilians inside was burned by the Georgian Army in the captured Ossetian village in the first day of Georgian attack. //www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1043639/Pensioners-burned-alive-church-baby-stabbed-deathjust-horrific-stories-Georgia.html ("Mail On Sunday")

Bill Gwatney, the current state Chairman of the Democratic Party of Arkansas is shot and killed at the Party headquarters in Little Rock, Arkansas. The man who shot Gwatney is later shot dead by police during a pursuit. //www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/13/arkansas.shooting/index.html (CNN)