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Georgia is a police state!

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"...Well, cops are the power-holders in Georgia today - yes, Georgia is a police state! It is so sad and frustrating, when, in order to be stable and maintain order, your country has to be a police state in the end of the 20-th century, but at least now we know who holds the power, as opposed to the recent past - when nobody knew who was really in power, since everyone with a gun (and there where a lot of them) thought that it was him and behaved accordingly... My God, what a mess it was!..."

[http:/www.sakartvelo.com ? Giorgi Topouria, 1995-96. All Rights Reserved. All Content Protected.]

"Police and security forces continued to torture, beat, and otherwise abuse prisoners and detainees, force confessions, and fabricate or plant evidence. Several deaths in custody were blamed on security force abuse or prison conditions...
...International and local human rights observers expressed concern that corruption is related to the number of police officers nationwide. Although the Government officially employed only approximately 35,000 policemen, these observers estimated that in reality the numbers employed may have reached 80,000. The Government was unable to pay the salaries for the police force. Consequently, police solicited bribes from the general population, especially motorists. The period between an arrest and a bail hearing was another opportunity for solicitation. Police reportedly approached the suspect's family and offered to drop charges in exchange for a bribe."

1999 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor U.S. Department of State, February 25, 2000

The present population of the Republic of Georgia is estimated to be about 3,5 million people. More than a million Georgians live in exile. For the estimated 3,5 million Georgians who still live in their homeland, there is a police force of about 200.000 persons: one policeman or -woman for every 17,5 inhabitants. The members of this police force get a monthly salary from 200 and more Lari (about
US $ 100 and more), while the largest part of the population has an average monthly income of about 10-15 Lari (US $ 5-8). It means that a relative big part of the state budget has to be spend to maintain this police force.

MATERIALS OF THE 1ST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS "THE MODERN WORLD AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE  REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA" (BATUMI, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 23-25, 2000)

Text from "Oboli": "SHABATi: Every Provincial become 'policial' [policeman]"
? "OBOLI" Project, 1995. All Rights Reserved. All Content Protected. Auth: G.Topouria ...

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Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze dismissed his defense minister on Monday for lapses in security surrounding the head of state... At the meeting, chaired by the president, the prosecutor general presented a report stating three military planes which had been due to accompany Shevardnadze on a trip to Turkey had failed to take off. "Mr Nadibaidze has seriously infringed all rules. He parked the planes at a military base belonging to a foreign country, let foreign military look after them," Shevardnadze said in a weekly radio address earlier on Monday.

Shevardnadze said two military aircraft due to accompany him during a weekend trip to Turkey could not take off from a foreign military base where they were parked because someone had thrown sand into the engines. He did not specify which country the military base belonged to. Russia has an air base on Georgian territory, near the capital Tbilisi...

"This decision (to sack Nadibaidze) was very difficult," Shevardnadze said. "But I have no right to pardon (such) a mistake when the fate of other people depends on me." Shevardnadze also recalled an assassination attempt against him in February, when he said all tanks in a tank battalion near Tbilisi which is responsible for restoring order in case of emergency, were out of oil and were inoperative. "If there had been a need for 15-20 tanks to enter Tbilisi to restore order in case of the president's death [×ÍÅÄÊ ÃÈÕÒÀÒÍÐÑ ÑÀÉÓÇÀÐÈ ÑÈÉÅÃÈÊÈ ÄÐÍÅÌÓÊÈ ÒÐÀÂÄÃÈÀ àÂÍÌÈÀ], it would have been impossible," he said, making clear that he held Nadibaidze partly responsible for this. [1998 Reuters]

Provincial policial's big guns - "Democratizators"
Tbilisi, Rustaveli avenue, performance of Police forces in front of "Rustaveli Theater":

"Democrats" ask You to see more of it, as much as possible...

Other small provincials - big policials: Georgian Mafia in Kremlin...

• Sergei Vladilenovich Kiriyenko was born in 1962 in Sukhumi, a Georgian port city that is now the capital of the breakaway Abkhazia region. He describes himself as a "Soviet Man" ? born to a Russian mother and a Jewish father, with a Ukrainian surname...
• From KGB to MFA: Primakov Becomes Russian Foreign Minister, by Marian Leighton. ..."Born on October 29, 1929, in Kiev, Ukraine, Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov spent his childhood in Tbilisi, Georgia"...

• Lebed's record of repression. What is it that foreign capital likes about Lebed? His record speaks for itself. A combat veteran of the Afghan war, Lebed came to national prominence as the commander of a key air assault division under Gorbachev. He led the violent suppression of a pro-independence demonstration in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, in 1989 and the following year commanded the troops which slaughtered hundreds in putting down unrest in Baku.
• Lebed Wins Victory In Defense Ministry. July 18, 1996. The New York Times. By Michael R. Gordon . ...Col.Gen.Igor Rodionov, is a contentious figure among reformers because of his role in a brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrations in Georgia during the waning years of the Soviet Union. ...Rodionov's involvement in the 1989 crackdown on peaceful protesters in Tbilisi has cast a shadow over his record, prompting some reformers to argue against his appointment. During that demonstration, Rodionov was the top commander of Russian troops in the Trans-Caucasus region and the military commandant of Tbilisi. Rodionov's troops used sharpened shovels and gas to disperse the protesters. Nineteen civilians died in the attack.
  
• ...GENERAL RODIONOV HAS HIS OWN HAWKISH (HARDLINE) HISTORY, AND THAT HAS SOME LIBERALS HERE DISTURBED. IN THE LATE 1980'S, AFTER AFGHANISTAN, HE SERVED WITH GENERAL LEBED IN THE SOVIET ARMY IN GEORGIA. IT WAS GENERAL RODIONOV'S TROOPS WHO TTACKED A PEACEFUL, PRO-INDEPENDENCE RALLY IN TBILISI IN 1989. AT LEAST 19 DEMONSTRATORS WERE KILLED IN THE ATTACK, IN WHICH SOLDIERS USED SHOVELS, CLUBS, AND POISON CHEMICALS AGAINST THE CIVILIANS.
• ...Rodionov served with Lebed in the Soviet army in Georgia in the late 1980s. Lebed has described Rodionov as "a brilliant general, a worthy and valiant man." ...He is best known for a bloody suppression of a pro-independence rally in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on April 9, 1989, when 19 nationalist protesters died at the hands of Soviet troops who attacked the demonstrators with shovels, clubs and poisonous chemicals. Georgian authorities say hundreds of people were later treated for gas poisoning.

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