Dzari Tragedy

Dzari Tragedy,^[5] Zar Tragedy (Ossetian: Зары трагеди),^[6] or the Shooting on the Zar road (Russian: Расстрел на Зарской дороге),^[7] was a mass murder of ethnic Ossetian refugees in the administrative territory of Dzari, near the central city of Tskhinvali in Georgia's break-away South Ossetia region. The event took place on 20 May 1992, when a convoy of refugees from South Ossetia was stopped on the road through Dzari and shot at point-blank from machine guns. According to the sources, 33 to 36 people, mostly children, women and the elderly, were killed as a result of the attack.

LocationDzari, South Ossetia, Georgia

DateMay 20, 1992 (1992-05-20)

TargetOssetian refugees

Attack type

Armed attack

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Dzari Tragedy
Part of First South Ossetian War
Location	Dzari, South Ossetia, Georgia
Date	May 20, 1992 (1992-05-20)
Target	Ossetian refugees
Attack type	Armed attack
Deaths	33 (per Georgian sources)[1] 36 (per Ossetian sources)[2]
Perpetrators	Defense Forces of Georgia (alleged)[3] Pro-Gamsakhurdia forces (alleged)[4]

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