IDPs from Kodori Gorge Request Attention from the Government

Shorena Kakabadze, Kutaisi

IDPs from Kodori Gorge, who live in the former building of the vocational college in the suburb of Kutaisi, complain about inattention from the government. They said this year, like in previous years and during the hard days of August 2008, representatives of neither local nor central authorities visited them. 

“Their behavior and attitude towards us is very painful. We do not request anything particular; only attention and at least remembrance of the hard days of August 2008 together with us; respect of those days, which were extremely painful for us. We are also victims of that war; August war was our tragedy too. Until now at least journalists remembered us but now they also forgot us,” the IDPs from the Upper Abkhazia said.

48 IDP families from Kodori Gorge live in the Kutaisi IDP shelter. They left the gorge on August 10, 2008, when Russian occupation forces bombed the gorge and then occupied it.