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wild beasts. It was only after some days that those corpses were
gathered together and buried by the help of technique Family
members of dead people decided to bury them on their
cemeteries and because of it the fire was stopped temporarily
Abkhazian party took their dead. We accompanied them to the
Gumista mount. At the departure the eighty years old man embraced
us and said in Russian “You are not guilty in it. Time will
come for truth and everything will become clear”. This narrator
remembers also the cases when in the beginning of the war the
present day de facto president of Abkhazia Alexander Ankvabi
at the expense of his authority managed protection of Georgian
population of Abkhazia. It was at his leadership that peaceful
population was exchanged. Someone may think that Ankvabi
did it simply for his profit, that he protected Georgians and demanded
from the Georgian party the same. But our respondent at
such evaluation expresses his doubt and states that Ankvabi is a
man, rather just, disciplined and stable and of correct ideas. According
to the very respondent the war in Abkhazia was supported
by the great part of Abkhazians. Before starting the war
number of people who supported the idea of the war and those
who were against it was equal. At the initial period of the war territory
of Abkhazia was left by twenty percent of Abkhazian population,
and the remaining part joined the war.
It should be emphasized that the attitude of respondents living
in various towns and villages of Abkhazia is interpreted as
the attitude not aggressive and cheated people. A respondent residing
in Gagra estimated sensibly, adequately the reasons of
military actions and the process of those actions. He was a director
of “ATK” ( vehicle corporation). Then he was an active participant
of the war. After the fall of Gagra he walked for 8 days,
through forests and somehow managed to save his life. Irrespective
so many disparity he left his whole property in Abkhazia,
his house was burnt but, irrespective of it, he has no elementary
malice against Abkhazian people. He considers the war was a re-
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