RESOLUTION OF THE PEOPLE'S
ASSEMBLY PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ABKHAZIA On condemnation of genocide, ethnic cleansing and other crimes
committed by the military-political authorities of
With the collapse
of the Soviet Union, fearing the break-up of the Georgian "empire",
the Georgian leadership decided to keep Abkhazia, South Ossetia and other
non-Georgian regions within Georgia by means of force. Beginning from late
80-s, counting on the assistance of thousands of Georgians of Abkhazia, who
found themselves here as a result of demographic expansion, the Georgian
authorities launched an anti-Abkhazian campaign. Following the government's
directives, scholars, intellectuals, informal organizations, clergy and
Georgian mass media were accusing the "newcomers" on the Georgian
land, Abkhazians, in all failures of the Georgian nation, particularly, in
"blocking" their way towards national independence. In reality, the
misanthropic ideology of aggressive Georgian nationalism was aimed at stirring
up inter-ethnic animosity in Abkhazia, intimidating the Abkhazians and
representatives of other nationalities living in Abkhazia, at abolishing the
statehood of Abkhazia and the creation on the territory of the Georgian SSR of
a unitary mono-ethnic independent Georgian state. The opponents of the
cherished goal were threatened with physical annihilation or eviction from
Abkhazia.
Bloody events in
Abkhazia in July 1989, inspired by the Georgian authorities, became a dress
rehearsal for a planned large-scale inter-ethnic and inter-state armed
confrontation.
In the years that
followed, at the bidding of the Tbilisi emissaries, the Georgian
ultranationalists started the division of institutions, enterprises, arts
associations and other unions and even sport teams according to the ethnicity,
and the citizens of non-Georgian nationality were dismissed from their jobs.
Later the Ministry of Interior, the Procurator's Office, the Supreme Council
and the Government of Abkhazia became also divided along the ethnic lines.
Simultaneously to this, illegal Georgian armed formations were created, which
were engaged in blackmailing and looting of peaceful civilians, in terror and
subversive activities on the
The artificially
created complex social-political and criminal situation forced thousands of
Russians, Armenians, Greeks, Estonians and representatives of other
nationalities to leave the Republic. Simultaneously, ethnic Georgians from
The leadership of
Abkhazia repeatedly appealed to the Georgian authorities demanding to halt these
explosive processes, but all in vain.
In the course of
ever growing Georgian-Abkhazian opposition, which was taking place against the
background of the collapse of the
On
As a result of the
ethnic cleansing, practically no Abkhazian population was left on the occupied
part of Abkhazia, including the towns of Ochamchyra, Sukhum and Gagra. For
example, according to the data of the Procurator's Office of Abkhazia, out of 7
thousand of Abkhazians residing in the city of
The Georgian
occupants transferred the main focus of their operations onto the
Trying to escape
genocide, the Abkhazians and representatives of other nationalities from
Sukhum, Gagra and other areas of the Republic were thronging into Bzyp
Abkhazia, which, encircled by the enemy and isolated from the outer world, was
engaged in unequal struggle. Thus, in the end of the XXth century, before the
eyes of the civilized world, the Georgian nationalists were carrying out a
deliberate extermination of the Abkhazian nation, which, according to the
Convention of the UN General Assembly of
The Procurator's
Office of the
The Supreme Council
of the
The people of
Abkhazia, at the cost of incredible efforts and a considerable number of lives
have heroically defended the liberty and independence of their motherland. A
great assistance in this holy struggle was provided by the volunteers from the
Since the end of
active military activity, the Georgian authorities have been trying to conceal
from the world community their crimes committed in Abkhazia. Moreover, they are
trying to groundlessly accuse the Abkhazian side in "aggressive
separatism" and "genocide" of the Georgians, thus creating a
false public opinion concerning the lawfulness and necessity of solving the
problem by means of force.
Regrettably, referring
to one-sided information provided by
Giving the
political and legal assessment to the events of 1992-1993 in Abkhazia, the
People's Assembly of the
1. Considering the
Resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Abkhazia
of 15 September 1992 "On the Armed Aggression of the Troops of the State
Council of Georgia Against Abkhazia" and basing upon the principles of
international law, to regard the introduction in August 1992 into the territory
of Abkhazia of Georgian armed forces as an act of aggression aimed at
abolishing the Abkhazian statehood, at depriving of its people of their
political will and at restoring on its territory of a colonial regime.
2. To consider the
Georgian-Abkhazian war of 1992-1993 as a military-political conflict of the
international, inter-state character, the conflicting sides of which were the
two states: the Republic of Georgia and the Republic of Abkhazia, and that the
armed forces of the national-liberation movement of the Republic of Abkhazia
and of the former metropolis, the Republic of Georgia, had the status of the
warring sides.
3. To acknowledge
that the military forces of the
4. Taking into
consideration the Resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the
Republic of Abkhazia of 15 September 1992 "On the Genocide of the
Abkhazian People", on the basis of the Convention of the UN General
Assembly of 9 December 1948, the People's Assembly of the Republic of Abkhazia
confirms and condemns the genocide and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the
military-political leadership of Georgia against the Abkhazian people with the
aim of its complete annihilation as a distinct nation.
5. To ask the
Procurator-General of the Republic of Abkhazia to accelerate the process of
bringing to court and issuing arrest warrants for the organizers, the immediate
executors and participants of the genocide, ethnic cleansing and other crimes
committed against the Abkhazians and representatives of other peoples of
Abkhazia.
6. To ask the Human
Rights Commission of the People's Assembly of the Republic of Abkhazia and the
Procurator's Office of the Republic of Abkhazia to accelerate the work on
elucidating and condemnation of the facts of genocide, ethnic cleansing and
other crimes perpetrated by the Georgian regime in Abkhazia.
7. To recommend to
the President and the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Abkhazia to
consider the deliberate acts of genocide perpetrated in the past by the
Georgian authorities against the Abkhazian nation and the encroachment upon the
statehood of Abkhazia, when formulating and implementing the foreign policy, in
particular, the basic principles of the relationship between Georgia and
Abkhazia.
8. To suggest to
the Cabinet of Ministers of the
9. To pass over to the UN Security Council,
OSCE, Heads of States and Parliaments of the CIS, for their information and
appropriate response, the materials presented by the Procurator's Office of the
Republic of Abkhazia on the facts of genocide, ethnic cleansing and other
crimes violating international laws, which have been committed in Abkhazia by
the Georgian aggressors. To publish these materials in the
press and disseminate them in the United Nations Organization.
10. To request the
UN Security Council:
a. to acknowledge
the acts committed by the Georgian occupational regime against the people of
Abkhazia in 1992-1993 as genocide and crime against humanity;
b. to set up an
International Military Tribunal for bringing to justice criminals, their
collaborators and inciters, who committed especially grave crimes against the
Abkhazians and representatives of other peoples residing in Abkhazia
c. to set up a
competent international Commission for an appropriate response concerning the establishment
of facts of attempts by the Georgian authorities to use nuclear weapons in
Abkhazia.
11. To ask the UN
Security Council, OSCE, CIS to exert political, diplomatic, economic and other
forms of pressure on the Georgian authorities in order to:
a. compensate the
material and moral damage inflicted on Abkhazia during the Georgian-Abkhazian
war and the following period;
b. eradicate the
aggressive nationalism in
Sokrat Djindjolia.
Speaker of The People's Assembly Parliament of The
City of
(Newspaper “Respublika Abkhazia”,
¹ 109, 5-6 November 1997)