08 July 2004, 22:37
Abkhazia asks S. Ossetia to extradite war criminals, terrorists
The government of Abkhazia is going to address the South Ossetian authorities with a request to extradite people involved in committing crimes and carrying out terrorist activities against the people of Abkhazia and deliver them to the Abkhazian justice in case they are detained in South Ossetia. With a view to that, the government of the Republic of Abkhazia will pass over to South Ossetian authorities some lists of people having committed grave war crimes and other criminal offenses both during the 1992-93 Georgian-Abkhazian war and ten years after the cessation of hostilities. This is what the press service for the government has told Caucasian Knot's correspondent. "Hundreds of civilians, officers of Abkhazia's police and service men of the CIS peacekeeping forces have been killed in Abkhazia since the end of the Georgian-Abkhazian war as a result of subversive and terrorist activities of the Georgian gangs White Legion and Forest Brothers," the press service for the government said.
As is known, about 40 Georgian service men have been detained in South Ossetia this morning. Abkhazia's security agencies claim to have information that there are White Legion and Forest Brothers members among the detainees, who carried out subversive and terrorist activities in Abkhazia's Gali district.
Author: Anzhela Kuchuberiya, CK correspondent
