Dzari Tragedy | |
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Part of First South Ossetian War | |
Location | Dzari, South Ossetia, Georgia |
Date | May 20, 1992 |
Target | Ossetian refugees |
Attack type | Armed attack |
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Dzari Tragedy, [5] Zar Tragedy ( Ossetian: Зары трагеди), [6] or the Shooting on the Zar road ( Russian: Расстрел на Зарской дороге), [7] was a mass murder of ethnic Ossetian refugees in the administrative territory of Dzari, near the central city of Tskhinvali in Georgia's break-away South Ossetia region. The event took place on 20 May 1992, when a convoy of refugees from South Ossetia was stopped on the road through Dzari and shot at point-blank from machine guns. According to the sources, 33 to 36 people, mostly children, women and the elderly, were killed as a result of the attack.
Dzari Tragedy | |
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Part of First South Ossetian War | |
Location | Dzari, South Ossetia, Georgia |
Date | May 20, 1992 |
Target | Ossetian refugees |
Attack type | Armed attack |
Deaths | |
Perpetrators |
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Dzari Tragedy, [5] Zar Tragedy ( Ossetian: Зары трагеди), [6] or the Shooting on the Zar road ( Russian: Расстрел на Зарской дороге), [7] was a mass murder of ethnic Ossetian refugees in the administrative territory of Dzari, near the central city of Tskhinvali in Georgia's break-away South Ossetia region. The event took place on 20 May 1992, when a convoy of refugees from South Ossetia was stopped on the road through Dzari and shot at point-blank from machine guns. According to the sources, 33 to 36 people, mostly children, women and the elderly, were killed as a result of the attack.