Georgian population of Sukhumi, Georgian administration of Abkhazia
Perpetrator
Abkhazian Armed Forces
Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus
Bagramyan Battalion
Outcome
Ethnic cleansing of the Georgian population
Deaths
1,000 (Georgian estimate)[1]
Displaced
50,000[2]
v
t
e
War in Abkhazia
1st Sukhumi
Gagra
Tkvarcheli
Ochamchire
Gumista
Kamani (massacre)
2nd Sukhumi
The Sukhumi massacre took place on 27 September 1993, during and after the fall of Sukhumi into separatist hands in the course of the War in Abkhazia. It was perpetrated against Georgian civilians of Sukhumi, mainly by militia forces of Abkhaz separatists and North Caucasian allies.[3] It became part of a violent ethnic cleansing campaign carried out by the separatists.
^О выявленных фактах политики этнической чистки/геноцида, проводимой на территории Абхазии, Грузия, и необходимости передачи виновных лиц в руки правосудия в соответствии с международными принципами надлежащего судебного процесса. заключение Гос. комис. Грузии по установлению фактов политики этнич. чистки-геноцида, проводимой в отношении груз. населения Абхазии, Грузия, и передаче материалов в Междунар. трибунал (in Russian). О-во грузин в России. 1997.
^Human Rights Watch, Georgia/Abkhazia: Violations of the Laws of War and Russia's Role in the Conflict, March 1995
^"Siege of Sukhumi", Time, October 4, 1993.
and 24 Related for: Ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Sukhumi information
their execution (right-click to open file) Video file, ethniccleansingofGeorgiansin Abkhazia (right-click to open file) Sukhumi 27.09.93 (Video) (wmv)...
time—culminated in the 1992–1993 War in Abkhazia, which resulted inGeorgia's loss of control over most of Abkhazia and the ethniccleansingofGeorgians from Abkhazia...
murder, ethniccleansing, and expulsion of 95–97% of the Circassian population, resulting in 1 to 1.5 million deaths during the final stages of the Russo-Circassian...
after the fall ofSukhumi (See EthniccleansingofGeorgiansin Abkhazia). Following the Abkhazian war, the Confederation went into a period of decline due...
the battle for Sukhumi was concluded by a full-scale campaign ofethniccleansing against its majority Georgian population (see Sukhumi Massacre), including...
others in Abkhazia and by the 1992–1993 war, which saw the ethniccleansingofGeorgiansin Abkhazia. Prior to the war, ethnicGeorgians made up 45.7% of Abkhazia's...
recognized the ethniccleansingofGeorgians, which UN General Assembly Resolution GA/10708 also mentions. The UN Security Council has passed a series of resolutions...
of Abkhazia and was killed by Abkhaz militants during the ethniccleansingofGeorgiansin Abkhazia in 1993. Shartava was born on March 7, 1944, in Senaki...
of the Soviet Union led to a massive escalation in Soviet ethniccleansing. The Deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union, originally conceived in 1926...
the ethniccleansingofGeorgiansin Abkhazia During the War in Abkhazia in 1992-93, the villages along the Gumista River (north and east ofSukhumi) such...
and the resulting ethniccleansingofGeorgians from the area. During the War in Abkhazia, the Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, then called...
capital, Sukhumi, after fierce fighting on September 27. Georgia's military defeat was followed by the ethniccleansingof the Georgian majority in Abkhazia...
policy in the USSR and ethniccleansing, common of Stalinism, as well as a crime against humanity. Emigration from the Joseon kingdom of Korea to the neighboring...
separatists during the ethniccleansingofGeorgiansin Abkhazia in 1993. Guram Gabiskiria was born on 2 March 1947 inSukhumi, Georgian SSR. Gabiskia graduated...
founder of the Georgian Television of Abkhazia, who was murdered by Abkhaz separatists during the ethniccleansingofGeorgiansin Abkhazia in 1993 together...
mostly Georgians, injured when the Soviet Georgian government gave in to Georgian popular demand to transform a Georgian sector ofSukhumi State University...
thousands were massacred in an outbreak of mass ethniccleansing. Gagra and the Abkhazian capital Sukhumi were at the centre of the fighting and suffered...
replacing ethnicGeorgiansin leading positions with Abkhaz. As the Georgian-Abkhaz tensions rose, Ardzinba's rhetoric mounted, as he claimed in late July...
problems in the legal system and the unresolved Georgian refugee problem as the main human rights issues. In the 1990s, ethniccleansingofGeorgians took...
Georgian-Abkhaz conflict of 1992–93, Ochamchire experienced a significant population decline due to ethniccleansingofGeorgians. Most of the displaced persons...
September 1993, leading to the mass killings ofethnicGeorgians and loyal citizens, in which several members of the Abkhazian government, including its chairman...
of previously rare ethnic violence against them. The matter was also discussed in the parliament of Greece. Georgiansin Greece Saberdzneti Georgia–Greece...
Global Information