Shards of bombs, tattered military uniforms, blackened bottles, burnt children’s toys, portraits of the dead… It’s a discreet “war museum”, installed on beaten earth, in the basement of a house in Ergneti, in the north of Georgia, close to the checkpoint with South Ossetia, one of the two secessionist territories of the country, with Abkhazia. Lia Tchlatchidze, 69, left there everything she picked up after the fighting, in the street, in the surrounding fields, at her house, at her neighbours’. In this small village alone, 160 houses were bombed, burned, looted, destroyed, and 12 inhabitants killed. Of the villa of the person in charge of this museum there remained, she recalls, “than the walls”.
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