Henk van Rensbergen Photography A bathtub sits in a decaying bathroom in the Abkhazia Parliament bui

Henk van Rensbergen Photography

A bathtub sits in a decaying bathroom in the Abkhazia Parliament building. The expansive structure at the capital in Sukhumi was badly damaged by fire during the conflict of the early 1990s. 

Bullets whizzed through the air and shells decimated the capital during the Abkhaz-Georgian War that began in August 1992 and lasted 13 months.

Significant human rights abuses were recorded on all sides and Sukhumi was the site of a months-long siege, which resulted in heavy civilian casualties.