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A garden memorializing the Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict in the Williamsburg community.
Generously constructed by Elbakidze New York.
Designed by Nicholas V. Elbakidze.
Map depecting the Georgia-Abkhazia Conflict.
(Georgi M. Derluguian. (1998), "The Tale of Two Resorts: Abkhazia and Ajaria Before and Since the Soviet Collapse", in Crawford, Beverley; Lipshutz, Ronnie D., The Myth of "Ethnic Conflict": Politics, Economics, and "Cultural" Violence, Berkeley, California)
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The Ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia refers to the ethnic cleansing, massacres, and forced mass expulsion of thousands of ethnic Georgians living in Abkhazia during the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict of 1992–1993 and 1998 at the hands of Abkhaz separatists and their allies (possibly, including volunteers from Russia) (Mirsky, Georgiy. On Ruins of Empire: Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Former Soviet Union. MacArthur Foundation and the London School of Economics and Political Science).
Armenians, Greeks, Russians and opposing Abkhazians were also killed. Roughly 250,000 Georgian civilians became Internally displaced persons (IDPs) (Human Rights Watch. "Georgia/Abkhazia: Violations of the Laws of War and Russia's Role in the Conflict." Published on hrw.org, March 1995).
The ethnic cleansing and massacres of Georgians has been officially recognized by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) conventions in 1994, 1996 and again in 1997 during the Budapest, Lisbon and Istanbul summits and condemned the "perpetrators of war crimes committed during the conflict (White Book of Abkhazia. 1992–1993 Documents, Materials, Evidences. Moscow, 1993).