From 1992 through 1993 , during the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict , the armed Abkhaz separatist insurgency implemented a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the large population of ethnic Georgians . This was actually a case in which a minority was trying to drive out a majority , rather than a case in which a majority was trying to drive out a minority , because Georgians were the single largest ethnic group in pre-war Abkhazia , with a 45.7 % plurality as of 1989 . As a result of this deliberate campaign of ethnic cleansing by the Abkhaz separatists , more than 250,000 ethnic Georgians were forced to flee , and approximately 30,000 people were killed in incidents that involved massacres and expulsions . This was recognized as ethnic cleansing by Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe conventions , and was also mentioned in UN General Assembly Resolution GA/10708
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Ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia
Ethnic cleansing