From Wikipedia:   "In December 1990 the Supreme Soviet of Georgia abolished the autonomous Ossetian enclave....Violent conflict broke ouat towards the end of 1991, during which many South Ossetian villages were attacked and burned as well as Georgian houses and schools in Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia...As a result approximately 1,000 died and 100,000 ethnic Ossetians fled the territory and Georgia proper."

To be continued