ABKHAZIAN CONFLICT (1989-2005) CHRONOLOGY OF THE EVENTS Please note: This page is under construction. Lots of information, maps & other data to be added

March / 1989
19	About 30 000 signatures are put under a petition demanding that Abkhazia is allowed to secede from Georgia and become a “full Union Republic”
July / 1989
15 - 17	An attempt to establish a branch of Tbilisi State University in Sukhumi result in an explosion of inter-ethnic violence. At least 20 people are killed by Apsua extremists
October / 1989
14	Merab Kostava, a popular Georgian anti-communist politician dies in a car accident leaving Zviad Gamsakhurdia the only popular nationalist leader
August / 1990
25	Supreme Soviet of Abkhazia declares Abkhazian autonomy a “sovereign republic fully independent from Georgia”. The decision was made in the absence of Ethnic Georgian legislators who were instructed from Tbilisi to boycott this session. Supreme Soviet of Georgia annuls the above declaration same day.
December / 1990	Vladislav Ardzinba is elected chairman of the Abkhazian Supreme Soviet. Ethnic Georgian legislators who were instructed from Tbilisi to vote in his favor
	TO BE CONTINUED

Sources: Stephen E. Jones

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