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War Weary in Georgia [photoessay]

A refugee from the Gori region © Nina Akhmeteli/EurasiaNet.org

08/21/2008

Journalist Rena Effendi narrates a series of photographs she took of war weary refugees, devastated homes, and Russian troops as she travelled through the Georgian cities of Gori and Tskhinvali since the conflict began.

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