Zhiuli Shartava
Zhiuli Shartava | |
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ჟიული შარტავა | |
Chairman of the Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia | |
In office January 11, 1990 – September 27, 1993 | |
President | Zviad Gamsakhurdia |
Head of the Council of Self-Defence of Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia | |
In office 1992–1993 | |
President | Eduard Shevardnadze |
Personal details | |
Born | Georgian SSR, Soviet Union | March 7, 1944
Died | September 27, 1993 Sukhumi, Abkhazia, Georgia | (aged 49)
Zhiuli Shartava (
Abkhaz militants during the ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia
in 1993.
Biography
Shartava was born on March 7, 1944, in
Abkhaz militants. Initially they were promised safety,[1] however Shartava and others from the Council of Ministers were killed by the militants and according to UN report Shartava was tortured.[2]
In 2005, American journalist Malcolm Linton displayed his photo materials taken during the war in Abkhazia at the art gallery in Tbilisi, where Shartavas body was identified among the pile of corpses, clearly visible on one of the photographs. On video materials taken during the capture of Sukhumi by the militants, Shartava is carried out from the Government building and physically assaulted, after which he was forced into the van and taken to the outskirts of Sukhumi where he was killed with other Georgian and Abkhaz members of the government and their staff. Shartava's body was handed over to the Georgian side and was buried in the western Georgian city of posthumously
in 2004.
See also
- Ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia
- Sukhumi Massacre
References
- ^ "Zhiuli Shartava memorial page". Archived from the original on July 2, 2007. Retrieved July 2, 2007.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Report of the UN Secretary General on the situation in Abkhazia, Georgia, October 12, 1993
- ^ Vakhtang Kholbaia, Labyrinth of Abkhazia, 1999
- ^ Conflict in the Caucasus: Georgia, Abkhazia, and the Russian Shadow (App Labour History Series; No. 3) by Svetlana Mikhailovna Chervonnaia
External links
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