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Moaning from pain and shock, Elgudzha Bagaturia staggered into the brick house where fellow Georgian soldiers were taking cover from small arms fire. A stream of blood gushed from a hole in his neck, courtesy of a grenade hurled by Abkhazian insurgents trying to take the city of Sukhumi, the capital of their autonomous region within Georgia. Suddenly, an exploding shell shook the house from the left. Then another concussion, this time from the right. The enemy artillery was zeroing in on its target. "Outside everyone!" shouted Misha, the black-bearded commander. "They have found...
...they had. Ten minutes after his comrades laid Bagaturia on a dirty blanket and pulled him into the street, a shell smashed the building, killing two wounded soldiers left behind. Dodging explosions, the Georgians zigzagged past overgrown oleander bushes and neglected vineyards toward the comparative safety of downtown Sukhumi. As they dragged Bagaturia through the former resort, once one of the Black Sea's most idyllic vacation spots and now a bombed-out coliseum where Georgians and Abkhazians are locked in combat, an old woman cried out, "How are things out there? Is the enemy advancing? What will become...
...country's former President, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, whose lust for power remains undampened by the popular coup that deposed him nearly two years ago. The revolt in Abkhazia, where a small minority of ethnic separatists want an independent state, has put the fate of Georgia on the line. In Sukhumi, where he has set up headquarters, Shevardnadze has vowed to keep his nation whole or die trying...
...they all share the brutality of internecine war. Many of these gerrymandered republics are being torn apart by long-suppressed ethnic hatred erupting like flash fires along Russia's periphery, but few conflicts have reached the incendiary combination of confusion, violence and anarchy that exploded last week in Sukhumi...
...passengers, Koveysvo Bransizkas, 46, and his son Prano Algirdas, 18, were seized by Turkish military authorities. The two readily admitted hijacking the craft while it was on a short run between the Soviet Georgian cities of Batumi and Sukhumi. They said they wanted to escape Russia and requested political asylum...