Thirty years after the war in Georgia’s breakaway territory of Abkhazia, victims are still waiting for justice.
In 1993, Venera Meshveliani was one among more than 300 people who were held hostage by Russian soldiers for around three weeks in Abkhazia, a breakaway region in northwestern Georgia that borders Russia.
Most countries recognize Abkhazia as Georgia’s land but Russia and a few of its allies view the territory as a state of its own. According to an unpublished report by Georgia’s prosecutor’s office, the conflict killed about 5,738 people. Geopolitical tensions have blocked a pathway that could see the war crimes of the early 90s addressed.
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