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September 26, 2008

Amid Conflict in Georgia, No One Remembers Civilians

by Angelika Arutyunova, Daily Star, Lebanon - For the past month, women in Georgia who were displaced from Abkhazia during the 1993 conflict have witnessed history moving backward; everything they lived through 15 years ago is repeating itself. These women are now hosting a new flood of displaced civilians from Abkhazia and South Ossetia after Russia's aggression in those regions, as well as within the Georgian territories that Russian forces have occupied since the invasion.

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