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3 unusual facts about Ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia


Ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia

The exact number of those killed during the ethnic cleansing is disputed, however, it ranges from 8,000 to 10,000 people, not including the civilians who were killed in 1998 during the separatist onslaught on Gali region.

Some 60,000 Georgian refugees spontaneously returned to Abkhazia's Gali district between 1994 and 1998, but tens of thousands were displaced again when fighting resumed in the Gali district in 1998.

After the fall of Sukhumi, the only region in Abkhazia which maintained its large ethnic Georgian population was Gali.



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Misha Kokaia

Some say that he was killed in Sukhumi along with Zhiuli Shartava, Guram Gabiskiria and others by Abkhaz separatist rebels during the ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia on the same date.