Gali District, Abkhazia
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Gali District is one of the districts of Abkhazia. Its capital is Gali, the town by the same name. The district is smaller than the eponymous one in the de jure subdivision of Georgia, as some of its
Gali Reservoir
Soviet mosaic in Gali
Samurzakan in 1899
The ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia, also known in Georgia as the genocide of Georgians in Abkhazia, was the ethnic cleansing, massacres, and forced mass expulsion of thousands of ethnic Geo
Gali District, Abkhazia
…overwhelming majority in the district. At the height of the secessionist war in Abkhazia in 1993, the Georgians of Gali were subjected to systematic ethnic cleansing at the hands of the Abkhaz militias and their allies from Russia's North Caucasian republics. By November 1993, most of the Gali District had been…
A visitor at a gallery recognizes her dead son in a photograph on the 12th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing in Abkhazia, 2005.