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<text id=93TT0110>
<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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<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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