Kamani ( ka, კამანი) is a small village in

Abkhazia Abkhazia, officially the Republic of Abkhazia, is a List of states with limited recognition, partially recognised state in the South Caucasus, on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, at the intersection of Eastern Europe and West Asia. It cover ...

, the disputed region of

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. It is notable for the Kamani Monastery and the 1993 Kamani massacre.

History

The Kamani Massacre took place on July 9, 1993, during the

Georgian-Abkhaz conflict The Abkhazia conflict is a territorial dispute over Abkhazia, a region on the eastern coast of the Black Sea in the South Caucasus, at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. The conflict involves Georgia, the Russian Federation a ...

. It was perpetrated against Georgian inhabitants of Kamani (a small village located north of

Sokhumi Sukhumi or Sokhumi is a city in a wide bay on the Black Sea's eastern coast. It is both the Capital city, capital and largest city of Abkhazia, a partially recognised state that most countries consider a part of Georgia (country), Georgia. The ...

), mainly by militia forces of Abkhaz separatists, and their North Caucasian and

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n allies. It became a part of the bloody campaign carried out by the separatists, which was known as the

ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia The ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia, also known in Georgia as the genocide of Georgians in Abkhazia ( ka, ქართველთა გენოციდი აფხაზეთში, tr), was the ethnic cleansing, massacres, and fo ...

.Conflict in the Caucasus: Georgia, Abkhazia, and the Russian Shadow by S. A. Chervonnaia and Svetlana Mikhailovna Chervonnaia, p 51

References

Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia The ''Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia'' ( ka, ქართული საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია, tr, ქსე) is the first universal encyclopedia in the Georgian language, printed in Tbilisi from 1965, the editor ...

Vol. 5, p. 343, 1980. Populated places in Sukhumi District {{Georgia-geo-stub