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Word: liakhvi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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Across the road from the burning farmer's field, three Georgian brothers in their 80s sit on a bench, resting their feet. They have walked 60 km (37 miles) since early Monday and do not know where to go. They are from a small, ethnically mixed village in the Liakhvi gorge in South Ossetia. Their families left their homes earlier but the men stayed behind, thinking that at their age they would not be bothered. But on Monday morning, Levan Khaduri, 84, a tiny gray-haired man with a deep tan, was putting up a new fence around the home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: Georgia's Ravaged Capital | 8/12/2008 | See Source »

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