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Boney-M to play Georgian frontline
West Indian pop group Boney-M are to perform on the frontline in a breakaway region of Georgia.
- Agencies
- Published: 12:35 October 13, 2007
Tbilisi: West Indian pop group Boney-M are to perform on the frontline in a breakaway region of Georgia.
The band will be paid by the government to play in a village it controls in the separatist region of South Ossetia, a Georgian spokeswoman said on Friday.
The concert will be in Tamarasheni, a village of around 500 people in the middle of the conflict. Gun battles erupt regularly in the region despite a ceasefire.
Thousands died in a war when South Ossetia broke away from Georgia after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
Boney-M can fill stadiums in the former Soviet Union, where hit songs such as "Daddy Cool", "Rasputin" and "Rivers of Babylon" were among the few pop tunes approved by the ruling Communist party.
The rundown village where the concert will be held on Saturday is scarred by bullets. Only Russian peacekeepers and tanks separate it from the rebels' capital Tskhinvali, a short walk away.
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