From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/29/2007 3:38 PM Georgia releases Abkhazian captives Tbilisi – Georgia released on Saturday seven Abkhazian soldiers more than one month after some Georgian commandos captured them from the Abkhazian region of Tkaurchal.
David Bakradze, a Georgian state official in charge of management across the conflict zones, was on Friday in Sukhum, Abkhazia’s capital, to meet with Sergei Shamba, the Foreign Minister of Abkhazia. His announcement of plans to release the Abkhazian captives very soon came only one day before the soldiers were handed in to the United Nations office in Tbilisi, the capital city of Georgia. The Abkhazian soldiers will possibly arrive safely at their country on Sunday.
The Georgian court of law sentenced the Abkhazian captives to five years in prison when they were kept as captives.
The Georgian administration tried after September 21 when the Abkhazian soldiers were captured to alter the real story behind the incident. It said in its media reports that Abkhazians fought Georgian soldiers in Upper Kodor. However, a United Nations mission for military investigation found out after its search across the region that the incident happened not in Upper Kodor but in the Abkhazian region of Tkaurchal—thus proving Abkhazia right in its claims. The fighting left two Abkhazians and two Russians dead at that time. (Agency Caucasus)
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