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April 9 tragedy
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events in Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1989
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Within Vinony's link graph, April 9 tragedy is referenced by 593 other articles, and connects out to history of Georgia, Georgia (country) and Soviet Union.
Vinony files it under 1980s in Tbilisi, 1989 disasters in Georgia (country) and 1989 disasters in the Soviet Union.
Its subject is documented across 38 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Date
- 4–9 April 1989
- Location
- Tbilisi , Georgian SSR , Soviet Union
- Caused by
- Political repression Nationalist sentiment
- Goals
- Civil rights Restoration of Georgian Independence Opposition to the Abkhaz separatism
- Methods
- Protest march , picketing , street protesters, Flag waving.
- Resulted in
- First multi-party elections , end of the communist rule Restoration of Georgian independence via referendum Recognition of Georgia’s membership of the Soviet Union as an illegal occupation
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- occurrence
- Part of
- perestroika
- Country
- Georgia (country)
- Location
- Tbilisi
- Image
- April9victims.jpg
- Number of deaths
- 21
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- point in time
- 1989-04-09
- Commons category
- April 9 tragedy
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Lead figures
Merab Kostava Zviad Gamsakhurdia Giorgi Chanturia and others
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “April 9 tragedy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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