Dzari Tragedy, Zar Tragedy (), or the Shooting on the Zar road (),
was a mass murder of ethnic
Ossetian refugees in the administrative territory of
Dzari
Dzari ( ka, ძარი '' '', os, Зары, russian: Зар) is a settlement at the head of the river Kornisistskali (left tributary of the Eastern Fron) in the Tskhinvali District
Tskhinvali District ( ka, ცხინვალის რ ...
, 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.
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Georgian–Ossetian conflict
May 1992 events
1992 murders in Georgia (country)
1992 in South Ossetia
Mass murder in 1992
Massacres in Georgia (country)
1992 in Georgia (country)
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