Georgia/Abkhazia: Back Home, but in Limbo

The rights of ethnic Georgian returnees to Abkhazia are hostage to nearly two decades of political conflict.

(New York) – The rights of ethnic Georgian returnees to Abkhazia are hostage to nearly two decades of political conflict, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. About 47,000 of those displaced by the fighting in the early 1990s as Abkhazia tried to separate from Georgia have returned to Gali, the southernmost district of Abkhazia.

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