Reference :
V-P-GE-E-00575
Date :
07/2009
Caption :
Tseronisi village. An ICRC visit to a family whose house was destroyed and burnt during the fighting in August 2008.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
In this village on the Georgia side, close to the Adminstrative Boundary Line, ICRC visits a family whose house was destroyed and burned in the days following fighting in August 2008. Old lady (Mary) is the house owner. She lives with two sons and daughter in law (Natia) and grandchild (little Mary). They fled from fighting but returned to find their house, small shops and bread oven burned, looted and destroyed. Since spring 2009 they have lived in two one-room 'cottages' built on their land by international organisations including UNHCR. They want to rebuild their fine stone house but it is too expensive. Natia and little Mary walk down the few hundred yards to the river that marks the edge of a 'buffer zone' - they dare not enter because have been told there are explosive remnants of war, and have been warned off by shots into the air. They cannot access their fields or graze cattle on their land which straddles the Adminstrative Boundary Line.
Original material :
digital
Resolution :
4000x3000
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
colour
