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Georgia: IDPs in Georgia still need attention

July 10, 2009

Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) prepared a report on the situation of IDPs in Georgia. The report describes the difficult conditions of internally displaced people who fled from their places of residence as a result of the armed conflict in August 2008.

„Large-scale displacement was caused in August 2008 by conflict between Georgia and the
Russian Federation over the fate of the secessionist territory of South Ossetia. Most of the people displaced were later able to return to their homes in areas adjacent to the administrative border with South Ossetia, and most ethnic Ossetians returned to their homes in South Ossetia. However, some 37,000 ethnic Georgians who fled South Ossetia have not been able to return by mid-2009.

In addition to the people displaced in 2008, some 220,000 to 247,000 people from Georgia’s secessionist territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are still waiting for a solution to their displacement following conflicts which broke out in the early 1990s. The majority of them live in the region bordering Abkhazia and in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, face difficult conditions in former hotels and public buildings, and depend on meagre state benefits. Over the past years, some 45,000 people have returned to the Gali district in eastern Abkhazia, only to find poor conditions and economic prospects there“.

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