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To: tejek who wrote (407896)	8/19/2008 7:18:18 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572384

[t]Georgia and true alternatives to the Wiki "Fast Food" style source of absolute knowledge.[/t] For those who really want to know what the Georgian Abkhazian and Ossetian conflict is about, take your time and study the following document. Picked out of context it should be a argument gold mine for either side, leftist dem or neo, who really want to drive home their subjective points. hrw.org Here three additional and very good links for either side, at the bottom for our leftists and above that for me and other more realistic posters: As a result of the above, the demographic situation was artificially altered. Even in 1897 after mass migration to Turkey and other countries of the Middle and Near East the Abkhaz numbered 55.3%, whereas by the end of the 1990s they numbered only 17% (in other words they were a minority in their own country).. Over this period, the Abkhaz population had increased by 1.5, while the Georgian population had increased ten-fold. unpo.org The distribution of territory and the past policies of tsarist and Soviet rule meant that in 1989 the Abkhaz made up only 17.8 percent of the population of the autonomous republic named for them (compared with 44 percent Georgians and 16 percent Russians). The Abkhaz constituted less than 2 percent of the total population of Georgia. countrystudies.us The laws of 1978 and 1991 gave citizens of the USSR the right to live in any of its parts, in any union republic, remaining, by that, citizens of the USSR, and to have the additional accompanying citizenship. This principle of republican citizenship made possible the migration to union and autonomous republics with special ethnic composition and character, for people having an ethnicity unusual to these countries. Under this principle, emigrants possessing Georgian (supplementary) citizenship headed to Abkhazia from the regions of Georgia, and by their entrance created conditions that lead to the destruction and devastation of the ethno-politcal structures there. It is necessary to note, however, that the juridical legalization of the union republic’s and autonomous republic’s citizenship did not formally exist, and for this reason, during the existence of Soviet power only Russian citizenship applied in Abkhazia. circassianworld.com