Khamzat Gitsba
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Khamzat "Rocky" Gitsba was a participant in the 1996 hijacking of the MV Avrazya who was shot dead in 2007 in Gudauta.
Khamzat Gitsba earned the nickname "Rocky" for his love of boxing, after the film character Rocky Balboa.[1] Gitsba was a geography graduate from Abkhazian State University. He worked for some time in the high school in the village of Duripsh.[2] Gitsba fought in the 1992-1993 war with Georgia under the command of Shamil Basayev. The Russian newspaper Kommersant reported that Gitsba's cousin married Basayev,[3] but this has been denied by the Spiritual Board of the Muslims of Abkhazia.[2]
