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1 dead 3 injured as Georgians guerillias infiltrate Abkhazia - Magda Hassan - 16-11-2008 http://en.rian.ru/world/20081115/118333303.html MOSCOW - Abkhazian border guards killed one and injured three "Georgian saboteurs" on Saturday in a shootout in the Gali district of the rebel republic, an Abkhazian presidential representative said on Ekho Moskvy radio. "At approximately 1 p.m. [10:00 GMT] a group of Georgian saboteurs attempted to cross the border near the village of Soberiya. They were noticed and there was a skirmish as a result of which one of the Georgians was killed and three were wounded," said Ruslan Kishmariya, the Abkhazian president's representative in the Gali district. The shootout occurred when a border guard patrol came across an armed group of six people, police spokesman Lourens Kogoniya, adding that the Georgians fled back across the de facto border to the undisputed part of Georgia. Kishmariya said the Abkhazian authorities were strengthening the border with Georgia, which he accused of continuing subversive activity. "The Georgian special services have one goal - to find out how Abkhazia is strengthening the border with Georgia," he told RIA Novosti. Abkhazia broke away from Georgia in the early 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union in an armed conflict that claimed thousands of lives. Russia and Georgia fought a five-day war after Georgia attacked another breakaway republic, South Ossetia, on August 8. Moscow recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states in late August. The majority of residents in both provinces have had Russian citizenship for a number of years. span.jajahWrapper { font-size:1em; color:#B11196; text-decoration:underline; } a.jajahLink { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; } span.jajahInLink:hover { background-color:#B11196; } 1 dead 3 injured as Georgians guerillias infiltrate Abkhazia - Paul Rigby - 16-11-2008 Magda Hassan Wrote:http://en.rian.ru/world/20081115/118333303.html The CIA's Al-Qaeda, presumably? Guard your schools well, Abkhazians. P.S. BBC reports mass invasion of Georgia by, er, fleeing Georgian special forces. Milliband is to address the Nation in short order. The Guardian has lined up columns by Peter Tatchell, ("Abkhazian homophobes cleanse historic Georgian villages"), David Clarke ("Putin the Monster"), Edward Lucas ("Why we must nuke Ivan now!"), and Simon Tisdall ("The Foreign Office has briefed me as follows..."). Vanessa Redgrave has chained herself to Boris Berezovsky. |