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'I just want peace' Atlanta Hawks center from Georgia aches while his homeland suffers.

Publication: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
Publication Date: 05-OCT-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: 'I just want peace' Atlanta Hawks center from Georgia aches while his homeland suffers.(Sports)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Paul Newberry - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ATLANTA - While war raged in his homeland, Zaza Pachulia ached from afar.

He was a Georgian stuck in American Georgia, unable to return to his native country after the Russians invaded over the summer.

"My mom, cousins, grandparents, friends ... they're all back there," said Pachulia, the Atlanta Hawks' rugged center. "It's especially tough when you live in a country like Georgia. It's a small country. Everybody knows you."

When someone asked how his loved ones were doing, he shot back: "The whole country is my family."

Imagine his anguish as he watched the Russians rout the outgunned, outmanned Georgians, causing widespread destruction in the tiny nation of 31/2 million people before an uneasy peace prevailed. Pachulia, like the rest of the world, saw disturbing television images of a country going up in flames.

His country.

"I was here this summer when that was going on and Zaza came into my office," Hawks...

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