25 years on since war in Abkhazia, Georgia
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Today Georgia is commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Abkhazia War, which ended with the area becoming a breakaway region of Georgia and leaving hundreds of thousands displaced.
The confrontation started on August 14, 1992 and lasted for 403 days. It was one of many conflicts precipitated by the breakup of the Soviet Union and was one of the bloodiest, most consequential and most unresolved battles of the time.
In recognition of the date Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili said that he believes the sides will manage to correct the mistake made 25 years ago.
"The history of our [Georgians and Abkhazians’] cohabitation is exemplary and we do not have the right to live in this reality. There must not stand a foreign power between us. This is harmful for us, Georgians and Abkhazians and for the future of our children”, Kvirikashvili said.
He added that "this huge mistake” will be corrected and a time will come when Georgians and Abkhazians will live together with love and respect.
President Giorgi Margvelashvili said that the Russian state policy had played a role in starting the conflict in Abkhazia. He added the consequences of this conflict still remain among top challenges for Georgia.
"I deeply believe that a day will arrive when together with Abkhazians and Ossetians we will begin building a strong, developed, democratic and peaceful state where security and economic welfare, protection of political rights, maintenance of ethnic, religious and cultural identity of each and every citizen will be guaranteed”, Margvelashvili said.
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During the 1992-93 conflict, tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers lost their lives and about 300,000 people were displaced.
Significant human rights violations and atrocities were reported on all sides and peaked in the aftermath of the Abkhaz capture of Sokhumi – the main city in the region - on September 27, 1993. This was followed by a large-scale campaign of ethnic cleansing against the ethnic Georgian population, according to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
A United Nations Secretary General fact-finding mission reported numerous and serious human rights violations were committed by both sides during the Abkhazia war.
Between 13,000 and 20,000 ethnic Georgians and approximately 3,000 Abkhaz were reported to be killed, more than 250,000 Georgians became internally displaced and 2,000 went missing.
Today Georgia is commemorating the 24th anniversary of the Abkhazia war, which ended with the area becoming a breakaway region of Georgia and leaving hundreds of thousands displaced.
Georgia is commemorating the 23rd anniversary of the Abkhazia war, which ended with the area becoming a breakaway region of Georgia and leaving hundreds of thousands displaced.
Georgia is commemorating the 22nd anniversary of the Abkhazia war, which after the clash saw Abkhazia become a breakaway region of Georgia.
The Olof Palme International Center, a Swedish non-governmental organisation, has published a first-ever independent report on the human rights situation in Russian-occupied region of Georgia, Abkhazia.
Russia will transfer military materials to Abkhazia, a Russian-occupied region of Georgia. The respective "agreement” was signed today.
Georgia has strongly condemned the recent visit of Syrian lawmakers to the country’s western occupied Abkhazia region.
The Government of Georgia has proposed legislative changes for improving the humanitarian, social and economic conditions of the populations in Georgia’s Russian-occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).
The aim of the initiative is to improve cooperation across the occupation line.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Syria has released an official statement regarding the recognition of occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali regions.
A National Archives of Georgia exhibition is hosting viewers to a retrospective collection of photographs that chronicle the independence movement, civil and regional conflict in Georgia in the 1990s.
27 years have passed since the armed conflict in Georgia’s Russia-occupied region of Abkhazia. Per tradition, Georgian officials and the public have gathered at Heroes Square, in the center of Tbilisi to pay tribute to servicemen who gave their lives for the territorial integrity of Georgia.
Twenty-eight years have passed since the armed conflict in Georgia’s Russia-occupied region of Abkhazia. The Abkhaz war lasted 13 months and 13 days and ended with the loss of the capital of Abkhazia, Sokhumi, on September 27, 1993, which was preceded by negotiations between Georgia and Abkhazia with the mediation of Russia. On July 27, 1993 the Sochi agreement was signed but Abkhaz forces violated the terms and opened fire while Georgian troops were withdrawing from the region.