Why did so many different Caucasian ethnicities join the fight against the Georgians in the nineties?

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During the Georgian Civil War in the early 1990s, several Caucasian groups took up arms against the Georgians, including:

Ossetian separatists
Abkhazian separatists
The Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus, which famously consisted of Chechens but also included Abazins, Avars, Circassians, Balkars, Dargins, Karachais, Kumyks, Lezgins, and Laks (and of course Abkhazians/Ossetians).
Bagramyan Battalion, composed mainly of Armenians.

What factors led such a diverse range of ethnicities to align against the Georgians during this conflict?

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