Dzari Tragedy

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 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 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.

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

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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