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War Veterans' Peacetime Struggle |
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Written by Sausryqua
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Friday, 26 January 2007 |
Abkhazia’s ex-soldiers find themselves unemployed, depressed and even suicidal.
By Inal Khashig in Sukhum (CRS No.142, 14-Aug-02)
When a crisis threatens the republic of Abkhazia, the army calls on its “reservists” – veterans who fought in the war with Georgia of 1992-3.
These former soldiers were mobilised last week after a flare-up of tension in the Kodori Gorge region. In October 2001, they were the unrecognised republic’s frontline defence and withstood a raid by Chechen guerrilla commander Ruslan Gelayev, assisted by the Georgian military, in the same region.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 26 January 2007 )
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Abkhaz Children Learn of Parents' War |
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Written by Sausryqua
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Wednesday, 20 December 2006 |
Young people in Abkhazia are struggling to understand the conflict with Georgia.
By Indira Bartsits*
Sukhum- In a small courtyard in Sukhum, a group of children is playing war games. One of them, evidently the leader, cries out, "Come on, let's make teams - we're Georgians and Abkhaz!" They proceed to act out a bloody war that began before many of them were born.
Adults know that the war between Georgia and Abkhazia began on August 14 1992, lasted 413 days and cost thousands of lives on both sides. What do the children of Sukhum, who have grown up since then, know about it now?
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 27 December 2006 )
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Testimonies About Georgian-Abkhazian War |
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Written by Sausryqua
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Friday, 24 November 2006 |
From the testimony of Khartchilava E.P., born in 1960, inhabitant of Tkuarchal, Kutaise St. 37 My mother Shurdulava K.A. lives in the village of Kindgi. She is 78. In September 1992 she was at home. Eight Georgian guardsmen surrounded her house one day and tried to get into it through the window. My mother-in-law opened the door and let them in. They searched the house, took everything they liked in it, killed a bull and took a goat for their chief. Then they started torturing the old woman: they beat her, hit her with a gun, fired near her and made her run to and fro. She was saved by a mirage: she crawled to the forest. The Abkhaz guerillas took her to Tkuarchal. The Georgian guardsmen burnt down her house and took away the cattle. They killed her nephew and threw him in the forest. The neighbors found the dead body only in 28 days and buried it.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 27 December 2006 )
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The Occupation of Abkhazia and its Consequences |
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Written by Sausryqua
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Tuesday, 07 November 2006 |
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NATELLA AKABA
There is every evidence to maintain that ethnic cleansing was being carried out on the territory of Abkhazia occupied by the Georgian troops, i.e. the town of Sukhum, Gulriphsh and Ochamchira regions. 1) Abkhaz and Armenian villages - Tamish, Ardzinba, Beslkhuba, Markula, Labra, Atara-Armianskaya and others have been destroyed. The inhabitants of these villages had to seek refuge in more remote villages or in the blockaded mountain miners' town of Tkuarchal. 2) Thousands of Abkhaz, Russians, Armenians, Greeks, Turks and people of other nationalities have been taken hostage and put to prison without any official charges. Some of them were shot down, others were exchanged or released under the pressure of public opinion. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 27 December 2006 )
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