Occupation forces raise a new barbed wire fence near the village of Pakhulani
By Khatia Bzhalava
Tuesday, December 29
The State Security Service reported that the Russian occupation forces raised new barbed-wire-fences near Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia region. The agency stated that this action is another destructive step from the occupation forces, which creates more obstacles for locals regarding free movement and further worsens the security situation on the ground. According to the agency, EUMM and international partners have already been informed on the matter.
Within the so-called illegal borderization process, the occupation regime erected a new barbed wire and built new constructions near the Pakhulani village of Tsalenjikha municipality in western Georgia, on December 26-27. According to the locals, the Russian military worked mainly at night to install new constructions.
Parliament’s Vice president, Gia Volski stated that the Georgian people will not tolerate the actions of occupation forces, including raising barbed wires and kidnapping people. According to him, those barbed wires will no longer exist, “just as the Berlin wall collapsed years later.”
The chairperson of the Human Rights and Civil Integration Committee, Mikheil Sarjveladze responded to the new illegal so-called borderisation process and stated that the Georgian side has been making every effort to prevent such actions and achieve de-occupation once and for all.
According to the statement made by the Georgian Foreign Ministry, Over the past two weeks, the so-called illegal borderisation took place near the villages of Tseronisi and Knolevi of Kareli municipality, as well as at the villages of Takhtrisdziri, Dvani, Koda, Tchvrinisi, and Atotsi. Near the village of Pakhulani and Muzhava of Tsalenjikha municipality of western Georgia. Near the villages of Khurcha and Ganmukhiri near occupied Abkhazia.
