DECREE ISSUED BY THE PRESIDIUM OF THE
SUPREME COUNCIL OF ABKHAZIA
On August 14 of 1992, armed troops of
unlawfully established State Council of the
From the very first of hours of invasion the
troops of the State Council resort boundless terror and physical annihilation
of 100 000 Abkhaz nation. They are ousting non-Georgian population from
Abkhazia. Military helicopters,
equipped with missile and bombs, as well as tanks and howitzers are used
against the peaceful civilians. The
weapons of a mass-destruction “Grad” and others are widely used that are banned
by the Geneva Convention of 1949. The
compact settlements of Abkhaz ethnic are being devastated, in particular the
villages of Ochamchire and
The State Council of Georgia is not likely to
hide its policy of genocide against the Abkhaz people. On 15 August the chairman of the State
Council of Georgia Ed. Shevardnadze on Georgian TV said: “Nothing stops us in
fighting for the territorial integrity of our country as it always was done by
our great ancestors “. On 15 August the
Commander of Georgian troops G. Karkarashvili declared in Abkhaz TV that he was
ready to annihilate all the Abkhazs.
Thus we are witnessing a real plot aimed at genocide, direct aggression
and offence that is defined as a crime by Article 3 of the 1948 Convention. One of the goals of the ongoing aggression is
to deprive the Abkhaz people of their historical statehood. Current Georgian state, even not a member of
the UN yet, violated the preamble and Articles 1 and 55 of the UN Charter that
secures respect of a big and small nations and
supplies the small people with a right of self-determination.
Proceeding from the aforementioned, the
Presidium of the Supreme Council of the
To consider as an act of genocide of the Abkhaz
people the mass-terror, physical annihilation, torture of war-prisoners and
hostages resorted by the troops of the State Council of Georgia.
Chairman of the Supreme Council of the
(Newspaper
“Svobodnaia Abkhazia”, # 2, 1992)