We went to a place where many Abkazian IDPs have been housed. These were IDPs from 1992 – not the ones from 2008 who have either returned to their homes or have been housed in many new houses recently built by the government. The place where the 1992 IDPs were housed was an old soviet “sanitorium” in Likani, just outside Borjomi proper. Borjomi and its surroundings have a number of these. They were rather grand in their day, albeit made in the fifties and sixties of ugly concrete – the favorite soviet building material. Essentially, the “middle-class” would come to “take the waters” and generally have a relaxing time with good food, massages and all the things we associate with a health spa. They are grand no more. The windows are broken, the concrete is crumbling, there are holes in the roof and the place is astonishingly cold and depressing. The scenery is nice. These people have been under these conditions for seventeen years. No child there remembers Abkhazia; they were all born in Likani. The government hasn’t done much for them and doesn’t seem to care about them. The recently built houses are for the recent IDPs. We were shocked and very depressed.