Dzari Tragedy

Dzari Tragedy
Dzari Tragedy
Part of First South Ossetian War
Location	Dzari, South Ossetia, Georgia
Date	May 20, 1992
Target	Ossetian refugees
Attack type	Armed attack
Deaths	33 (per Georgian sources); 36 (per Ossetian sources); ;
Perpetrator	Defense Forces of Georgia (alleged); Pro-Gamsakhurdia forces (alleged); ;

Dzari Tragedy, Zar Tragedy (Iron Ossetic: Зары трагеди), or the Shooting on the Zar road (Russian: Расстрел на Зарской дороге), 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.

References

↑ "რა მოხდა 1992 წლის 20 მაისს ?-ოსი ლტოლვილების დახვრეტა ძარის გზაზე". Intermedia.ge (in Georgian). 20 May 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
↑ Chekoev, Anatoly. "ОСЕТИЯ ВОШЛА В СОСТАВ РОССИИ НА ЧЕТВЕРТЬ ВЕКА РАНЬШЕ ГРУЗИИ". Russia-today.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 10 July 2009. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
↑ Tarkhanova, Zhanna (21 May 2018). "Зарская трагедия. Хроника некруглой годовщины". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (in Russian). Retrieved 24 August 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
↑ Miroshnichenko, Vladimir (1 June 1992). "Погибшие беженцы перекрыли газопровод". Vlast (in Russian). Archived from the original on 30 November 2016. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
↑ "ძარის ტრაგედიიდან 28 წელი გავიდა". Qartli.ge (in Georgian). 20 May 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
↑ Larisa, Tskhuyrbaty (20 May 2006). "Зары трагеди — æнустæм трагеди". Xurzarin.ru (in Ossetic). Retrieved 24 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
↑ Kochieva, Inga (20 May 2006). "В Южной Осетии вспоминают жертв расстрела беженцев". Kavkaz-uzel.eu (in Russian). Archived from the original on 20 July 2017. Retrieved 24 August 2020.

External links

Dzhioeva, U. (19 May 2007). "Зарская трагедия по прошествии 15 лет". Yuzhnaya Osetiya (in Russian) (42). Archived from the original on 5 May 2017.
"Давид Санакоев: "Данное преступление до сих пор осталось безнаказанным"" (in Russian). Ministry of Press and Mass Communications of the Republic of South Ossetia. 16 May 2008.

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[1] "რა მოხდა 1992 წლის 20 მაისს ?-ოსი ლტოლვილების დახვრეტა ძარის გზაზე". Intermedia.ge (in Georgian). 20 May 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

[2] Chekoev, Anatoly. "ОСЕТИЯ ВОШЛА В СОСТАВ РОССИИ НА ЧЕТВЕРТЬ ВЕКА РАНЬШЕ ГРУЗИИ". Russia-today.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 10 July 2009. Retrieved 24 August 2020.

[3] Tarkhanova, Zhanna (21 May 2018). "Зарская трагедия. Хроника некруглой годовщины". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (in Russian). Retrieved 24 August 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

[Грузия-4] Miroshnichenko, Vladimir (1 June 1992). "Погибшие беженцы перекрыли газопровод". Vlast (in Russian). Archived from the original on 30 November 2016. Retrieved 24 August 2020.

[5] "ძარის ტრაგედიიდან 28 წელი გავიდა". Qartli.ge (in Georgian). 20 May 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

[6] Larisa, Tskhuyrbaty (20 May 2006). "Зары трагеди — æнустæм трагеди". Xurzarin.ru (in Ossetic). Retrieved 24 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

[7] Kochieva, Inga (20 May 2006). "В Южной Осетии вспоминают жертв расстрела беженцев". Kavkaz-uzel.eu (in Russian). Archived from the original on 20 July 2017. Retrieved 24 August 2020.