Georgia celebrates heroic fallen soldier’s birthday

Today is the birthday of Georgian national hero Giorgi Antsukhelidze, who heroically sacrificed his life for his country in the Russian-Georgian war of 2008. Antsukhelidze was born in 1984 in the village of Alvani in the highland Akhmeta in northeast Georgia. He was conscripted into the Georgian Armed Forces in 2001. He then served in various units of the Georgian infantry headquartered at Senaki and then at Vaziani. Junior Sergeant Antsukhelidze took his service as an assistant gunner in the 41st Battalion of the 4th Infantry Brigade during the Russia–Georgia war of August 2008. He was captured by the enemy on August 9, during the battle of Tskhinvali. He was beaten to death at the brothers' cemetery near Tskhinvali Fifth School. Footage of his torture, recorded on an enemy soldier’s phone, was circulated on the internet in January 2009. Antsukhelidze was considered missing until November 2008, when his identification was determined by genetic examination of the bodies of military servicemen transferred to the Georgian side. He was buried at the fraternal cemetery of Georgian soldiers at Mukhatgverdi near Tbilisi.

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