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At first, we were trying not to mess around, but then the
Georgians exerted so much cruelty against Armenians that we had to back the Abkhazians. They would invade the houses and rob and torture the people. In Labra, they seated a married couple on chairs with holes on the seats and burned them. They
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A total of 1,500 Armenians participated in the war, a quarter of the
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After the arrival of peacekeeping personnel, the battalion disbanded. Twenty
Armenians were awarded the highest honor Hero of Abkhazia and 242 were killed in battle. The first President of Abkhazia
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on 9 February 1993 and became part of the
Abkhazian armed forces. Combat vehicles of the battalion were decorated with the Armenian flag. The battalion also included women in medical platoons.
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rape and murder, had consequently caused Armenians to favor the Abkhazian side. The Armenians of the
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