Abkhazia
Voice | ‘We still believed that he was alive and that he would come back one day’
On 16 March, the bodies of 12 people who died during the 1992–1993 conflict in Abkhazia were returned to their families. Lika Managadze, whose father Akaki was among the dead, reflects on her memories of her father and how the war shaped the course of her life. ‘I was born in Abkhazia, in the village of Aradu in the Ochamchire region. I was only five when the war broke out; my brother was seven and my mother 30. We were in a corn-field when planes flew over us and opened fire.’ ‘My brothe
