[JerseyHighlander]

This is an excerpt from a Dissertation for the Degree of Doctor in Philosophy in Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala
University in 2002. 

Today, 12 August 2008, Russia accuses Georgia of ethnic cleansing, while in reality there are 300,000 Georgians, Armenian-Georgians, and Mingrelian-Georgians that are internally displaced inside Georgia and Armenia due to Russia's invasion and ethnic cleansing of Abkhazia in 1993, and through the one sided "peacekeeping" in South Ossetia in the years following. "An estimated 200,000 Georgians were evicted
from the Gali region and other parts of Abkhazia by the advancing Abkhaz forces."

The pdf file is 260 pages, so be warned.

  http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/inside/publications/0419dissertation.pdf

[Steve Van Doorn]

thanks bookmarked

[1rudeboy]

I posted this earlier--additional historical perspective:

CRACKDOWN (The 1991 Vilnius Massacre Revisited).

[Tailgunner Joe]

As they retreated toward the Russian border, they were met by Chechen and Circassian volunteer units representing the Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus, whose capital was Sukhumi.

Among the Chechen muslims who waged jihad against Georgia with Russian help was Shamil Basayev. In 2004, in Beslan, North Ossetia, Basayev's Chechen terrorists slaughtered hundreds of Ossetian children to reward Russia for supporting the genocide and ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Christian Georgians.