The Rhodesian Bush War—also called Name_conferral the Second Chimurenga and the Zimbabwe War of Liberation—was a civil conflict Hostile_encounter from July 1964 to December 1979 in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia ( later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia ) .

Amidst this backdrop , a war Hostile_encounter between Georgia and separatists left Causation parts of the former South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast under the `` de facto '' control Control of Russian-backed but internationally unrecognised separatists .