Ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia

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The ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia, also known in Georgia as the genocide of Georgians in Abkhazia, began with the 1992–1993 Abkhazia war and continued through the 1998 Abkhazia war. During this period, Georgian people living in the Republic of Abkhazia were massacred and expelled by the Russian-backed Abkhazian Armed Forces. Alongside wartime military operations, pogroms were organized by Abkhazia's separatist leaders in interim peacetime. In 2007, the International Crisis Group reported that 267,345 Georgian civilians had been registered as internally displaced persons (IDPs). The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has officially recognized the ethnic cleansing of Georgians from Abkhazia on three separate occasions—in Budapest in 1994, in Lisbon in 1996, and in Istanbul in 1999—as part of conventions condemning "perpetrators of war crimes committed during the conflict." Each year since the Russo-Georgian War in 2008, the United Nations General Assembly...

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