| Dzari Tragedy | |
| Partof: | First South Ossetian War |
| Location: | Dzari, South Ossetia, Georgia |
| Target: | Ossetian refugees |
| Type: | Armed attack |
Dzari Tragedy,[1] Zar Tragedy,[2] or the Shooting on the Zar road,[3] was a mass murder of ethnic Ossetian refugees in the administrative territory of Dzari, near the central city of Tskhinvali in Georgia's break-away South Ossetia region. The event took place on 20 May 1992, when a convoy of refugees from South Ossetia was stopped on the road through Dzari and shot at point-blank from machine guns. According to the sources, 33 to 36 people, mostly children, women and the elderly, were killed as a result of the attack.