Thursday 30 October 2008

VIDEO: Gia Karkarashvili, the Georgian Commander-in-Chief on TV threatens the Abkhazian nation with genocide

Gia Karkarashvili, the Georgian Commander-in-Chief on TV threatens the Abkhazian nation with genocide -August 24, 1992


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzvtaZIMy98

The Georgian general leading the invading forces in the autumn of 1992, Georgiy (Gia) Karkarashvili, stated on TV that he would sacrifice 100,000 Georgians to kill all 97,000 Abkhazians, if that is what it took to keep Georgia's borders inviolate.

- This threat was even reported in the Georgian newspaper 7 dghe 7 Days (No.31, 4-10 September 1992, p.3): ''On 25 August Gia Karkarashvili, general of the National Guard stationed in western Georgia appeared on Abkhazian television. He issued an ultimatum to the Abkhazian side: if within 24 hours they should not lay down their arms and hand themselves over to members of the State Council, the Abkhazians would have no-one left to carry on their race: 100,000 Georgians would be sacrificed for the 97,000 Abkhazians, but Georgias borders would remain in tact.''

- And also 'UNPO Abkhazia Report' November 1992, Chapter b. Human Rights and Cultural Destruction.''(PDF File) ...Additionally, the Commander-in-chief of Georgian troops in Abkhazia, General Georgiy Karkarashvili warned in a televised formal address to the Abkhaz and Georgian people in Sukhumi on August 24, that no prisoners of war will be taken by the Georgian troops, that if 100,000 Georgian lose their lives, then [on the Abkhazian side] all 97,000 will be killed; and that the Abkhaz Nation will be left without descendants. The delegation saw a video recording of this ominous speech.'

- Central Asian Survey, 12(3), (1993), p.338

- BBC Summary of World Broadcasts

A similar threat came from the head of Georgia's wartime administration, Giorgi Khaindrava, on the pages of Le Monde Diplomatique in April 1993. Goga (Giorgi) Khaindrava, told the correspondent from Le Monde Diplomatique that "there are only 80,000 Abkhazians, which means that we can easily and completely destroy the genetic stock of their nation by killing 15,000 of their youth. And we are perfectly capable of doing this."

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Shooted MI-8 Helicopter by Georgian troops - December 14, 1992 Georgian troops in the village of Lata shoot down a MI-8 helicopter with 60 passengers, including women and children, all of whom perish.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WwHRJdWUzw


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2 comments:

  1. i am Georgian and my family was born in Sukhumi. I just wonder, when the administration of this website show General Karkarashvili saying that he will defend Georgian territory from divisions within and threatens to kill every attempt, why does the website administration does not show the remarks made by Ardzinba, whereas he states that "Georgians cant live in Abkhazia, they can only die"? I understand that both sides have their own truth, but if one wants to show truth, even though its ugly, one has to show both sides!

    Referring to the second video, whereas Georgians shoot down MI-8 helicopter full of civil people, why the administration of this website does not show the Georgian PLANE, not a helicopter, which contained hundreds of women, children and elders, shot down from the airport as soon as it took off?

    Overall i want to say that this war was not between Georgia and Abkhazia. This war was between Georgia and Russia!!!

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  2. Dear Anonymous friend,

    First of all you should NOT forget that it is Georgia that STARTED the war.

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    Quote:

    In February 1992, the provisional Georgian Military Council announced Georgia’s return to its 1921 constitution. The Abkhaz Supreme Soviet was concerned that Abkhazia’s status was not adequately taken into consideration and so a draft treaty outlining plans on federal relations was sent to Tbilisi. Tbilisi did not respond and in July 1992 the Abkhaz Parliament reinstated the 1925 Abkhaz Constitution.

    On 14 August 1992 Georgian armed forces entered the Gali region of Abkhazia...

    ...From summer 1992 to summer 1993, Georgian troops controlled much of Abkhazia, including Sukhum(i). [I edited as 'Sukhum(i)'see my explanation and related maps about Sukhum]

    Source: http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-the-fco/country-profiles/europe/georgia?profile=politics&pg=7

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    Quote from: THE GEORGIAN-ABKHAZ CONFLICT: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE - JRL Research & Analytical Supplement, Issue No: 24, May 2004 http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/8226.cfm

    ''In December 1991 Gamsakhurdia was overthrown in an intra-Georgian civil war. The new military junta in Tbilisi invited Shevardnadze to return to head the State Council. He did so in March 1992.

    The scene was now set for war. Georgian troops invaded Abkhazia from sea and land on August 14, 1992.

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    As you see that Georgia STARTED the war and this war was between Georgia and Abkhazia. Could you show me only ONE academic or official source which says that this war was between Georgia and Russia?

    There is constant misrepresentation in the West or in pro-Georgia propaganda that Abkhazia is led by a gang of separatists. I would reccommend those people to tell a fable to their children: "There is a separatist country ruled by a separatist government and there are separatist children drinking separatist milk and separatist old people in the streets and they drive separatist car. Everything could be Ok with them and they could look like us but there is one thing that distinguishes them from us - they are separatists, they are not people so we have to kill them all."

    As for the government, it was installed right after the war with Georgia - Putin was not there or even on the political horizon. There was pro-Georgian Yeltsin who together with Georgia put Abkhazia under sanctions and Yeltsin actually gave Shevardnadze the green light to attack Abkhazia on 14th August 1992.

    I suggest you also read ‘Excerpt from Dodge Billingsley's 'Military Aspects of the War. The Battle for Gagra’. http://www.abkhazworld.com/articles/analysis/4-georgian-apologists-at-home-and-abroad.html

    Second: Karkarashvili was not alone. A similar threat came from the head of Georgia's wartime administration, Giorgi Khaindrava, on the pages of Le Monde Diplomatique in April 1993. Goga (Giorgi) Khaindrava, told the correspondent from Le Monde Diplomatique that "there are only 80,000 Abkhazians, which means that we can easily and completely destroy the genetic stock of their nation by killing 15,000 of their youth. And we are perfectly capable of doing this."

    And Of course it was no accident that the Abkhazian research-institute and archives were torched (after cherry-picking), it was done to try to erase documentary proof of the Abkhazians' presence over the centuries (not to say millennia) on Abkhazian soil. See please: http://circassianworld.blogspot.com/2008/11/history-erased-abkhazias-archive-fire.html

    As you see they did NOT threaten Russians, they threatened the whole Abkhazian nation with genocide. How can this war have been between Georgians and Russians? By the way, if you have any reliable source for your claim, feel free to share it with me; you can share it with the whole world. IF you have any, IF there is any…

    There are many Georgian tales about the war. You did not mention them, but I suspect that you know and believe them with all your heart. For example: ‘’The Chechens and Abkhazians played football with the heads of Georgians’’, which is a parallel to the equally fictitious myth that on 15th July 1989, when the first fatal clashes took place between Abkhazians and Kartvelians in Sukhum, the Abkhazians disembowelled a pregnant Kartvelian and played football with the foetus. No commission found any evidence to support these charges. But, unfortunately, it is not easy to combat the gullibility of a nation which so unquestioningly accepts such absolute LIES.

    We, nevertheless, have to resist every time and every day when we are faced with them.

    Maybe UNPO’s 1992 Abkhazia report could be useful for you and for readers.

    Some Chapters from the UNPO’s Abkhazia Report in 1992
    http://www.abkhazworld.com/articles/conflict/20-some-chapters-from-the-unpos-abkhazia-report-in-1992.html

    I am not saying that the Abkhazian side was all sugar and spice in its behaviour - because we all know that some bad things happened. But as for the bringing down of an aircraft, the only such incident which I recall related to the bringing down of (I think) 2 aircraft in the final days of the war as they were coming in to land at Sukhum's airport carrying SOLDIERS. I'm sure if there'd been any shooting down of an aircraft taking off from Sukhum, we'd have heard about it. Although, as I said above, IF you have academic and offical sources, you can share them with us today.

    The same goes for your claim obout Ardzinba’s statement. If you have any source about it, please share it with us. And, of course, you are free to make a video and put it on YouTube.

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    About 'SUKHUM'

    See ''Historical Maps: Abkhazia at various times in history''‏‏

    http://gallery.abkhazworld.com/#4.60

    The maps included here give an idea of the frontiers of Abkhazia at various times in history. The Abkhazians call their capital /Aqw'a/, but it is more usually known in other languages as Sukhum (Sukhum-Kalé or Sukhum-Kaleh in the period of Turkish influence along the Black Sea's eastern coast; /soxumi/ in Georgian). The ending -i in the form /Sukhumi/ represents the Georgian Nominative case-suffix, and it became attached to /Sukhum/ from the late 1930s when (Georgian) Stalin and his Mingrelian lieutenant in Transcaucasia, Lavrent'i Beria, began to implement a series of anti-Abkhazian policies. Abkhazians today, for obvious reasons, resent the attachment of this element from the language of a people they see as oppressors.

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