Ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Sukhumi

Fall of Sukhumi (1993)
	Part of the War in Abkhazia (1992–1993)
	; A view of the city, taken in 2009.
Date	September 16-27, 1993
Location	Sukhumi, Abkhazia, Georgia
Result	Abkhazian victory Massacre of the Georgian civilians;
Belligerents
Georgia	Abkhazia
Commanders and leaders
Eduard Shevardnadze ; Giorgi Karkarashvili	Vladislav Ardzinba ; Shamil Basayev ; Sergei Dbar ; Sultan Sosnaliyev ; Sergei Matosyan
Units involved
Georgian National Guard	Abkhazia Abkhazian Armed Forces; Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus; Bagramyan Battalion;
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown
	1,000 Georgians killed (Georgian estimate) ; 50,000 displaced

The Fall of Sukhumi took place on 27 September 1993, at the hands of the separatists, in the course of the War in Abkhazia. The taking of the city came with a massacre of hundreds of Georgians, and it became part of a violent ethnic cleansing campaign carried out by the separatists. The massacre was perpetrated against Georgian civilians of Sukhumi, mainly by militia forces of Abkhaz separatists and North Caucasian allies.