The battles for Sukhumi are the events of September 16-27, 1993, which took place during the Georgian-Abkhaz war . During the fighting, control of the city passed from the forces of Georgia to the forces of the Republic of Abkhazia .
| Fights for Sukhumi | |||
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| Main Conflict: Georgian-Abkhaz War | |||
 The building of the Parliament of Abkhazia after the battles of September 1993 | |||
| date of | September 16 - 27, 1993 | ||
| A place |  Georgia /  Republic of Abkhazia , Sukhumi District , Sukhumi | ||
| Total | The victory of the Abkhaz troops, the further development of the offensive to the state border along the river. Inguri | ||
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Content
- 1 Course of events
- 1.1 Massacres
- 2 notes
- 3 See also
- 4 Literature
- 5 Links
Event
On September 16, 1993, the forces advocating the separation of Abkhazia from Georgia violated the ceasefire established earlier (it should be emphasized that the Georgian forces also violated the ceasefire by shelling), initiated by the UN , and the guarantor by the Russian Federation , and launched the assault on Sukhumi , from which As part of the ceasefire, Georgian tanks and heavy artillery were withdrawn. The operation was attended by Abkhaz formations, units of the Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus , Cossacks, and others. During the day of September 27, Georgian units left most of the city and retreated to the building of the government of Abkhazia, which was then also captured by Abkhaz forces.
Mass kill
On September 27, 1993 , after a two-hour battle near the Council of Ministers building, the Abkhazians captured and then shot without trial the employees of the pro-Georgian government of Abkhazia: Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Abkhazia Zhiuli (Juli) Shartava , State Councilor Vakhtang Gegelashvili, employee of the Council of Ministers Sumbat Sahakyan, Minister of Industry Raul Eshba, mayor Sukhumi Guram Gabiskiriya , head of the press center Alexander Berulava et al. [1]
Individual Abkhaz and Caucasian fighters displayed incredible [ neutrality? ] cruelty against the civilian population: according to the writer Tamaz Nadareishvili, a girl was raped, brutally murdered and dismembered in Sukhumi, and a note was left next to the remains of her: “How these parts of the body can no longer be connected, so Abkhazia and Georgia will no longer be together” [2] .
Notes
- ↑ A curtain of silence surrounds the fate of his comrades
- ↑ Nadareishvili, Tamaz. Genocide in Abkhazia. Tbilisi: Samshoblo, 1997, p 94
See also
- The massacre in Kamani (1993)
- Destruction of Georgian airliners in Sukhumi
Literature
- Andrew Andersen: “Russia Versus Georgia: One Undeclared War in the Caucasus” , Center for Military and Strategic Studies , Canada, October 2001.
- Georgia / Abkhazia: Violations of the Laws of War and Russian Role in the Conflict , Human Rights Watch Report, Vol. 7, No. March 7, 1995.
- White Paper of Abkhazia. Documents, materials, certificates. 1992-1993 , Comp. Voronov Yu.N., Florensky P.V., Shutova T.A., Moscow, 1993.
- The list of victims in Sukhumi in 1992-1996 on the website separatizm.narod.ru.