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'Zhiuli Shartava' () (1944-1993) was a Georgian politician who was killed by Abkhaz rebels during the ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia in 1993.
He was born on 7 March 1944. An engineer by education, he was elected in the Parliament of Georgia in 1992. He chaired the legal Council of Ministers and the Council of Self-Defence of Abkhazian Autonomous Republic during the Georgian-Abkhazian War in 1993. When the city of Sukhumi fell to the Russian-supported secessionist forces on September 27 1993, Shartava with other Georgian politicians (Guram Gabiskiria, Raul Eshba, Mamia Alasania, Sumbat Saakian, Misha Kokaia and others) refused to flee and was captured by the Abkhaz militants. Initially they were promised safety,^[1] but eventually killed, and the UN report mentions Shartava being excessively tortured. ^[2]

He was officially honored as the National Hero of Georgia posthumously in 2004.

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See also

★ List of Georgians

★ Sukhumi Massacre

References

1. Zhiuli Shartava memorial page
2. Report of the UN Secretary General on the situation in Abkhazia, Georgia, October 12, 1993
3. Vakhtang Kholbaia, Labyrinth of Abkhazia, 1999
4. Conflict in the Caucasus: Georgia, Abkhazia, and the Russian Shadow (App Labour History Series; No. 3) by Svetlana Mikhailovna Chervonnaia

External links

★ Government of Abkhazia (-in-exile)

★ Video file, capture of Zhuili Shartava, Guram Gabiskiria, Raul Eshba, etc and their execution