People Power in the Caucasus
Over the past two weeks, concerned citizens in both Russia and Georgia have started to make attempts to build alliances outside of the government-controlled media and structures. It is time for Georgian, Russian, Abkazian, and Ossetian civilians to stop imperial chess games that kill thousands of people and leave thousands more displaced and emotionally wounded.
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For the past month, women in Georgia who were displaced from Abkhazia during the 1993 conflict have witnessed history moving backwards; 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. In Tbilisi alone, there are more than 500 camps for internally displaced people, many of them women and children living with shortages of food and medical supplies.