Help sought to halt fighting

Zugdidi - Georgia yesterday sought international help to stop fighting in breakaway Abkhazia while fleeing refugees said their…

Zugdidi - Georgia yesterday sought international help to stop fighting in breakaway Abkhazia while fleeing refugees said their villages were being set on fire. The former Soviet republic's foreign ministry blamed the separatists for the fighting, the worst since the 1992-'93 war in which 10,000 people were killed

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