Ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Sukhumi

When

16 Sep 1993 – 27 Sep 1993

Kind

Battle

Also recorded as

Expulsion or deportation

Coordinates

43.00° N, 41.02° E

Description

1993 battle and ethnic cleansing

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

1993 massacre

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. It became part of a violent ethnic cleansing campaign carried out by the separatists.

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “War in Abkhazia: Fall of Sukhumi – Eduard Shevardnadze accuses Russia of passive complicity”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Massaker von Sochumi werden über 7.000 georgische Zivilisten in Abchasien ermordet”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• War in Abkhazia14 Aug 1992 · Civil war · Deaths 10,000