GEORGIA: POLISH HEAD OF U.N. OBSERVER MISSION IN TBILISI MARIA-MAGDALENA KAWOJSKA SHOT DEAD OUTSIDE HER HOME

Record ID: 190458

  • Title: GEORGIA: POLISH HEAD OF U.N. OBSERVER MISSION IN TBILISI MARIA-MAGDALENA KAWOJSKA SHOT DEAD OUTSIDE HER HOME
  • Date: 15th July 1998
  • Summary: TBILISI, GEORGIA (JULY 15) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV EXTERIORS OF THE HOUSE WHERE MARIA-MAGDALENA KAWOJSKA LIVED 0.06 2. SCU UN VEHICLE PARKED NEAR THE HOUSE WHERE KAWOJSKA LIVED 0.11 3. TRACK STAIRS LEADING TO KAWOJSKA APARTMENT/BLOOD SPOT ON FLOOR OUTSIDE HER APARTMENT 0.29 4. CU'S BLOOD SPOT ON THE FLOOR OUTSIDE HER APARTMENT (2 SHOTS) 0.37 5. SV DOOR OF THE APARTMENT 0.40 6. SV OFFICIALS OUTSIDE APARTMENT/SLV EXTERIOR OF APARTMENT (2 SHOTS) 0.52 7. SLV EXTERIORS OF GEORGIA PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE 0.57 8. SV SENIOR INVESTIGATOR GIGLA ABULASHVILI SAYING "WE HAVE TO WORK ON EVERY VERSION. MORE LIKELY IT WAS A NON-POLITICAL KILLING. " (GEORGIAN) 1.32 9. LV EXTERIORS OF THE PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE 1.40 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 30th July 1998 13:00
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  • Location: NATURAL WITH RUSSIAN SPEECH
  • Country: Georgia
  • Reuters ID: LVAEK6CYV6LZDBY8YDABJL2AJ5ZG
  • Story Text: A member of the United Nations' military observer team in Georgia was shot dead outside her home in the capital Tbilisi late on Tuesday.

    Maria-Magdalena Kawojska, a 31-year-old Pole who began working for the head of the U.N.observer mission in Tbilisi three weeks ago, was found dead outside her apartment on Wednesday (July 15) morning.

    Georgia's chief prosecutor had launched an investigation to find out further details about the incident.The U.N.

    mission declined to comment on the shooting.

    "We have to work on every version.More likely it was a non-political killing," said Gigla Abulashvili, a senior investigator from the Georgian Prosecutor's Office.

    Ninety unarmed U.N.military observers are based in Georgia, where they are helping a 1,500-strong Russian contingent to keep the peace between the former Soviet republic and its breakaway region of Abkhazia.

    The U.N.mission has complained in the past about the use of violence against its personnel and property in Georgia.


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