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- <title>
- Oct. 25, 1993: The Grim Escape
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Oct. 25, 1993 All The Rage:Angry Young Rockers
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GEORGIA, Page 38
- The Grim Escape
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- <body>
- <p>An army of the dispossessed faces cold and hunger after the
- Abkhazian triumph in Sukhumi
- </p>
- <p> They flee by the thousands--in horse-drawn carts stacked high
- with clothes and furniture; on bicycles balancing precarious
- bundles; on foot, arms laden with any belongings they can carry.
- Since Abkhazian rebels broke a Russian-mediated cease-fire and
- drove Georgian forces out of the Black Sea region, seizing its
- capital, Sukhumi, an estimated 200,000 Georgians are thought
- to have been uprooted. Some have been trudging for days through
- the bitter-cold, snow-covered mountains of the Caucasus, headed
- mainly into cities of western Georgia. In Sukhumi the Abkhazian
- insurgents are accused of having carried out mass "ethnic cleansing,"
- looting and plundering the former homes of Georgians, Russians
- and people of other nationalities.
- </p>
- <p> In a belated move to support Georgia, which reluctantly joined
- the Russia-dominated Commonwealth of Independent States only
- two weeks ago, Moscow has cut off energy and fuel supplies to
- Abkhazia and has sealed the border with the rebel-held region.
- Still, Georgian officials fear that their country faces complete
- collapse unless the Kremlin sends Russian troops to help recapture
- the Black Sea region and quash the spreading rebellion in the
- Transcaucasian state.
- </p>
- <p> By Ann M. Simmons/Moscow
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- </body>
- </article>
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