Georgian ‘Terrorists’ Accused Of Deadly Attacks in Abkhazia
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TBILISI, Georgia — The foreign minister of the separatist Georgian region of Abkhazia, Sergei Shamba, said “terrorists” sent from the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, are responsible for a series of explosions that injured 12 people.
“We have no other choice but to tell the international community that Georgia organized these blasts,” Mr. Shamba said yesterday by telephone from the Abkhaz capital, Sukhumi. “We have absolutely no doubt that Georgia is involved in this.”
Two blasts in Sukhumi yesterday left six people injured, the Interfax news service said, citing the Sukhumi City Prosecutor Alisa Bigvava. Two explosions Sunday in the Black Sea resort of Gagra wounded another six people.
Russia and Georgia have swapped accusations of brinksmanship in Abkhazia since mid-April, when Vladimir Putin ordered his government to establish direct economic links to the region. President Saakashvili has pledged to bring Abkhazia, which broke away from Georgia in a war in the early 1990s, back under central- government control.
“This is ridiculous,” a member of the Georgian parliament’s Defense and Security Committee, Nika Rurua, said by telephone. “Georgia isn’t behind this. We have no interest in blowing things up. This isn’t what the Georgian government wants in Abkhazia.”