AbkhaziaGov: THE LATA TRAGEDY – MAY MEMORY OF INNOCENTLY KILLED CHILDREN OF ABKHAZIA LIVE FOREVER
posted by circassiankama on December, 2009 as Abkhazia
THE LATA TRAGEDY – MAY MEMORY OF INNOCENTLY KILLED CHILDREN OF ABKHAZIA LIVE FOREVER
14/12/2009 02:20 ABKHAZIA, SUKHUM
Abkhazia marks the 17th anniversary of the dreadful Lata tragedy.
This
day, on December 14, 1992, the Georgian troops brought down a
helicopter over a mountain village of Lata with refugees from Tkuarchal
blocked by occupation troops.
81 people, 35 children and eight pregnant women among them were lost in a blink.
This day Abkhazia prays all killed children.
December, 1992 was one of the most complicated months of the Patriotic War of the Abkhaz nation.
There was no light, heat, products in the home front of warring Abkhazia.
The
miner's city of Tkuarchal suffered the hardest fate. The city was
blocked by the Georgian occupation troops. The population died of cold,
bombing and hunger.
Aviation was the only means of connection to
the outer world. Russian helicopters carried out humanitarian flights.
On the way back they took refugees, first of all, women and children.
It was so on December 14, 1992 too when the flight coming back from Tkuarchal to Gudauta was cram-full with people.
But
over the village of Lata a “Surface to Air” missile shot at the
helicopter from the coast occupied by the enemy interrupted the flight
and people’s lives.
The president called the citizens of
Abkhazia to always remember those tragical days of war when freedom of
our Abkhazia was won.
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