Dzari Tragedy
Dzari Tragedy (), Zar Tragedy (), or the Shooting on the Zar road (), was a mass murder of ethnic Ossetian refugees by Georgian troops in the administrative territory of Dzari, 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 by Georgian troops 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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