Vladimir Georgievich Arshba (Russian: Владимир Георгиевич Аршба; 8 May 1959 – 16 January 2018) was an Abkhaz soldier and politician who served as the first Minister of Defence of the Republic of Abkhazia, an unrecognised state, from 1992 until 1993.
Arshba graduated from the Tbilisi Higher Artillery Command School in 1980 and served with the Soviet Army in East Germany.
He later served as an adviser to the President of Abkhazia, and head of the State Migration Services from 2009 to 2015.
[citation needed] Arshba played a big role in the Ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia specifically in Gagra, where he apparently raped a 14-year old Georgian girl and ordered her execution briefly after.
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