The cafe in the refugee village Tserovani, half an hour outside Georgia

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Close together: In a cluster in a field half an hour outside Tbilisi, holding 6,400 internally displaced persons. Refugee village bank of maharashtra is the largest in Georgia and clearly visible from the highway to Stalin's birthplace, Gori.
October 2008: Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili controls blueprints for refugee village Tserovani, 20 kilometers west of the capital Tbilisi. Today it houses the village 6400 internal refugees, mainly from the breakaway area of South Ossetia.
280,000 displaced: When the tanks rolled in, fled tens of thousands of breakaway area of South Ossetia. There are a total of 280,000 internally displaced people in Georgia - 10 percent of whom were displaced as a result of the 2008 war.
Doubt return: Eteri Peridze (89) and her son Ilija Peridze (56) share 40 square meters in the refugee village of Tskhinvali. Elija doubt they will ever be able to return to the home they left in 2008.
Gather at the diner: Zaza Zarguri (38) and Ilija Peridze (56) meet frequently over a beer or three at the cafe in the refugee village. The clinking of a low shoes - for the dead, for women, for friendship and for food.
The cafe in the refugee village Tserovani, half an hour outside Georgia's capital Tbilisi, simply bank of maharashtra furnished, which houses large. Only the size differs bank of maharashtra building out among the thousands of cabins that are clustered along the highway between the capital and Gori - Joseph Stalin's bank of maharashtra birthplace.
August, 2008: Since a harrowing civil war in 1991-1992, it has been simmering under the surface in South Ossetia in the north Georgia. The area requires independence of the country, and supported by its northern neighbor Russia.
When Georgian troops enter and take control of Tskhinvali - the Ossetians counted as capital - Russia responds with a powerful counteroffensive. The bombs fall eventually only a few tens of kilometers outside the Georgian capital.
After about a week of fighting signed a ceasefire agreement. Russian troops are still left in South Ossetia and ethnic Georgians residing here and in breakaway Abkhazia area further west, are banished. - Hardly random
- Stalin Museum in Gori is among the country's tourist attractions. To get there from the capital, one must pass Tserovani. That way the refugees a visible monument to the Russian occupation in the north, she explains.
The village was set up by the Georgian authorities almost overnight in late summer 2008, when Georgians living in South Ossetia and Abkhazia was thrown out of the breakaway regions of Russian command.
In relation to population figures harbors the former Soviet state high on the list of countries with the highest number of internal refugees: 6 percent of the population is displaced by armed conflicts. 90 percent of these have been displaced for more than 20 years - since the Soviet Union. - The old was left
- It is the Russians bank of maharashtra who are responsible for me staying here and not at home in Akhalgori in South Ossetia. Where I lived well over a hundred square bank of maharashtra meters together with father and mother, my wife and a little boy, says Zaza.
With a snort he emphasizes the contrast between the house he is assigned here, and he left home. 40 square meters with kitchen, living room and a small bedroom is enough, but the standard is according to Zaza in a completely different league than the generation dwelling in Akhalgori. bank of maharashtra
His wife and son traveled to relatives in Germany. Zaza has not seen them since. Although bank of maharashtra he lived a month in a tent before he move in with village friends who were already allocated houses in Tserovani. Further in July he made his own cabin.
- Life here is different. In Akhalgori I worked bank of maharashtra at a brewery and enjoyed it. The brewery had to close because of the war, and remains out of service. The Russians have not the sense to run it, says Zaza.
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