Dzari Tragedy
Part of First South Ossetian War
LocationDzari, South Ossetia, Georgia
DateMay 20, 1992 (1992-05-20)
TargetOssetian refugees
Attack type
Armed attack
Deaths
    • 33 (per Georgian sources)[1]
    • 36 (per Ossetian sources)[2]
Perpetrators

Dzari Tragedy,[5] Zar Tragedy (Ossetian: Зары трагеди),[6] or the Shooting on the Zar road (Russian: Расстрел на Зарской дороге),[7] was a mass murder of ethnic Ossetian refugees by Georgian troops in the administrative territory of Dzari, near the central city of Tskhinvali in Georgia's break-away South Ossetia region. The event took place on 20 May 1992, when a convoy of refugees from South Ossetia was stopped on the road through Dzari by Georgian troops and shot at point-blank from machine guns. According to the sources, 33 to 36 people, mostly children, women and the elderly, were killed as a result of the attack.

References

  1. ↑ "რა მოხდა 1992 წლის 20 მაისს ?-ოსი ლტოლვილების დახვრეტა ძარის გზაზე". Intermedia.ge (in Georgian). 20 May 2019. Archived from the original on 24 August 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  2. ↑ Chekoev, Anatoly. "ОСЕТИЯ ВОШЛА В СОСТАВ РОССИИ НА ЧЕТВЕРТЬ ВЕКА РАНЬШЕ ГРУЗИИ". Russia-today.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 10 July 2009. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  3. ↑ Tarkhanova, Zhanna (21 May 2018). "Зарская трагедия. Хроника некруглой годовщины". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (in Russian). Archived from the original on 24 August 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  4. ↑ Miroshnichenko, Vladimir (1 June 1992). "Погибшие беженцы перекрыли газопровод". Vlast (in Russian). Archived from the original on 30 November 2016. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  5. ↑ "ძარის ტრაგედიიდან 28 წელი გავიდა". Qartli.ge (in Georgian). 20 May 2020. Archived from the original on 24 August 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  6. ↑ Larisa, Tskhuyrbaty (20 May 2006). "Зары трагеди — æнустæм трагеди". Xurzarin.ru (in Ossetic). Archived from the original on 24 August 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  7. ↑ Kochieva, Inga (20 May 2006). "В Южной Осетии вспоминают жертв расстрела беженцев". Kavkaz-uzel.eu (in Russian). Archived from the original on 20 July 2017. Retrieved 24 August 2020.


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