It also listed reports of government forces shelling nominal safe-haven areas for Tamil civilians, killing rebels trying to surrender, and allowing dismal humanitarian conditions to prevail in displaced-person camps.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Some problems are largely beyond Mr Shevardnadze's control, such as the private fief of Ajaria in the south, the two regions on the northern border which have struggled, with Russian help, to secede, and the Chechen rebels who use northern Georgia as a haven of last resort.

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If the rebels overrun the town, the refugees will probably be forced into the safe haven of Tuzla.

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