What the records say
- When
- 20 May 1992
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 33
- Coordinates
- 42.29° N, 43.87° E
- Description
- mass murder of ethnic Ossetian refugees by Georgian troops in 1992
Placed at the town its title names, Dzari.
Dzari Tragedy
Mass murder of ethnic Ossetian refugees by unidentified troops in 1992
Dzari Tragedy, Zar Tragedy, or the Shooting on the Zar road, was a mass murder of ethnic Ossetian refugees in the administrative territory of Dzari, near the central city of Tskhinvali in Georgia's break-away South Ossetia region. The event took place on 20 May 1992, when a convoy of refugees from South Ossetia was stopped on the road through Dzari and shot at point-blank from machine guns.
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