21 August 2008 – Updated edition from that of 18 August 2008
Hundreds of people have been killed and at least 158,000 ethnic Georgians and Ossetians
have fled their homes in South Ossetia and Georgia, due to military offensives by Georgia
and the Russian...
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21 August 2008 – Updated edition from that of 18 August 2008
Hundreds of people have been killed and at least 158,000 ethnic Georgians and Ossetians
have fled their homes in South Ossetia and Georgia, due to military offensives by Georgia
and the Russian Federation over the last week.
Among them, 128,000 found refuge in Georgia
proper and in South Ossetia, while 30,000 are estimated to have fled to North Ossetia in the
Russian Federation.
This adds to some 220,000 to 240,000 IDPs previously displaced in the
early 1990s from Georgia’s secessionist territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, who still
live in precarious situations throughout the country.
Humanitarian agencies and international donors have mobilised quickly to respond to the needs of the newly displaced, and are
airlifting supplies into the area.
Major constraints to the relief efforts include the lack of access to affected populations, in particular in South Ossetia, and the lack of precise information on the IDPs’ lo
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