Members of the IDPs for IDPs organization rallied at the Memorial of Heroes Falling for the Unity of Georgia, demanding an increase in veterans social assistance.

During the rally, the protesters and the police scuffled after the latter urged the demonstrators to leave. The police arrested organization member Irakli Torua but released him under caution shortly afterwards. Torua said he was detained for disobeying the police.

Chairman of the Government at Government of Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia Ruslan Abashidze says, “the state spares no effort regarding various social programs”.

Georgian officials, opposition leaders, Ambassadors and ordinary citizens are commemorating the 28th anniversary of the fall of Sokhumi on September 27, 1993.

The military confrontation in Abkhazia lasted 13 months and 13 days and ended on September 27, 1993, with the fall of Sokhumi and the defeat of the Georgian Armed Forces.

According to the data collected by the Georgian side, more than 10,000 Georgian soldiers and civilians died in Abkhazia while 300,000 people became internally displaced.