At the height of the patriotic war of the people of Abkhazia on December 14, 1992, the world was shocked by a terrible fact committed by the Georgian side. Over the village of Lata, the enemies shot down a helicopter carrying women, old people, children and wounded soldiers from the besieged Tkuarchal to Gudauta.

 As a result of this barbaric act, 85 people died, including 35 children. Eight pregnant women were among the victims of the Latin tragedy. By the time the Patriotic War was in full swing, few people could be surprised with death. But the death of 84 people, half of whom were children, and the rest were women and old people, made the whole of Abkhazia bleeding to death shudder. This tragic event plunged the entire young Republic into deep mourning and mournful numbness. The Abkhaz people were in the grip of an all-consuming grief. It seemed that life had stopped, stood still in those terrible days, as if the sky over Abkhazia had turned black.

 But grief has united the peoples of Abkhazia even more firmly in the face of a real overt threat of destruction. The people of Abkhazia withstood and won.

 The tragedy of December 14 will remain an unhealed wound of this war.