http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c35YOw8bmc&feature=related
If you could take a few mins to watch this...I'd appreciate it.
War brings nothing...what do they have now...just a city in ruins and lawlessness. The rebels created this mess for...nothing.
1992-93 war started by Georgia. If you understand the war you have to take a look Mamuka Kuparadze's documentary film "Absence of Will".
ReplyDeleteThis is what Georgian General Karkarashvili says in that documentary:
Gia Karkarashvili [General - Army Commander of the State Council of Georgia]: In the first place, the Ossetian war [1991-92] in Tskhinvali had just ended. The Georgia National Guard suffered heavy losses. We were exhausted. That’s why I thought it was reckless to go into Abkhazia. But I was told that the 13th-14th August was a good time to launch a military operation because the Russian Parliament was in recess. Unfortunately, we entered Abkhazia in a very disorganized way. We didn’t even have a specific goal and we started looting villages along the way. As a result, in the space of a month we managed to make enemies of the entire local population, especially the Armenians).11.52 sec: http://vimeo.com/8826939
An Excerpt from UNPO’s Abkhazia Report: ‘...When Georgian troops under general command of Defense Minister General Tengiz Kitovani first entered Sukhumi on August 14, Georgian soldiers attacked non-Georgian civilians, beat them, killed many, robbed them, and looted their houses and apartments. Reports of attacks on Abkhazian, Armenian, Russian, and other non-Georgian minority civilians, including killing, torture, and burning, looting or smashing of houses or other belongings, originate from many regions of Abkhazia under Georgian military control and for the entire period since August 14.’ [UNPO: November 1992 Mission to Abkhazia, November 1992, b. Human Rights and Cultural Destruction] http://www.unpo.org/downloads/AbkGeo1992Report.pdf
Here an excellent commentary on Kuparadze's film: http://www.abkhazworld.com/articles/analysis/406-absence-of-will-commentary.html
Never forget! There are always -at least- two sides of the wars.
Georgians even destroyed Abkhazia's National Archives. http://www.abkhazworld.com/articles/conflict/151-a-history-erased.html
ReplyDeleteI understand that there are two sides of each story and I respect that but the figures of the amount of ethnic Georgians that were killed, missing and refugees is something different compared to what the Abkhazian people had.
ReplyDeleteThey got along before...why did they have to do what they did?
Look at what the city is now...look at it from what it was before to what it is now.
War solves nothing, what is the logic in war...and now people's belongings are being sold to people that haven't been living there for centuries..