From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/3/2007 4:34 AM In Abkhazia Day of mahadjeers’ memory is commemorated 1.6.2007
On May 31 in Abkhazia they commemorated the Day of memory for victims of the Russian-Caucasian war and the violent eviction of the mountain peoples of Caucasus. That was informed in the Management of the governmental information.
On Mahadjeers’ Quay in Sukhumi, where it is planned to fix a monument, the wreath-laying ceremony was held. At the ceremony there were descendants of Abkhazian mahadjerrs, who came back to the historical native land, president Sergey Bagapsh, vice-president Raul Hadjimba, speaker of parliament Nuzgar Ashuba, deputies of the parliament, members of the Cabinet of Ministers, representatives of the public circles.
In the 60s-70s of the XIX century Abkhazes in thousands were compelled to leave their historical native land and to move into the countries of the Near East. Mahadjerrs settled there as ethnic communities, restoring their laws and traditions, used in Caucasus. The descendants of Abkhazian mahadjeers now live in 45 countries. The most numerous Abkhazian Diaspora is in Turkey.
On May 31, 1990 on the Sukhumi Quay they fixed a memory stone. On that place it was supposed to fix a monument devoted to the mahadjeers. "Corresponding art competition for the best project of such monument had been carried out even before the war of 1992-1993. The victory was after the project of the artist Gennady Lakoba. However by virtue of a number of reasons, the monument was not created. I believe we should organize the competition again to choose the best project and to establish at last the monument to our ancestors compelled to abandon the historical native land in the XIX century", - the minister of culture Nuzgar Logua told to the journalists.
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