საქართველოს დამოუკიდებლობის დღეს არაკაცებმა კვლავს მოიხსნეს „დემოკრატიულობის“ ნიღაბი. ამერიკის სახელმწიფო მდივნისა და შევარდნაძის მეგობრის ჯეიმს ბეიკერის თბილისში გახმაურებული ვიზიტის დროს - 1992 წლის 26 მაისს - როდესაც იგი „მხედრიონის“ საპატიო წევრი გახდა და არაკაც ჯაბა იოსელიანის ხელიდან „მხედრიონის“ მედალიონი მიიღო - კვლავ სასტიკად დაარბიეს და ესროლეს ლეგიტიმური, ეროვნული ხელისუფლების მომხრეების მრავალათასიან საპროტესტო მსვლელობას.
„მხედრიონელები“ ესვრიან და არბევენ საპროტესტო მიტინგს
გამარჯვებული დემოკრატი არაკაცი
SOLDIERS OPEN FIRE TO DISPERSE A RALLY IN SUPPORT OF OUSTED PRESIDENT.
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Soldiers opened fire to disperse a rally in support of ousted president Zviad Gamsakhurdia in Tbilisi on Tuesday (May 26,1992) .
Gamsakhurdia's supporters waved Georgian national flags and paraded portraits of the ousted president as they marched through Tbilisi before gathering at a rally to hear speeches condemning the military council, headed by former Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, which took power in January.
Panic spread after Georgian police opened fire, shooting over people's heads to break up the rally.
United States Secretary of State James Baker had left Tbilisi just hours before the gunfire was reported. Shortly before his departure, he had gone on a tour of the city's celebrations of Georgian Independence Day, during which he had shaken hands with people in the celebrating crowds.
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GEORGIA 1992: Elections and Human Rights
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GEORGIA 1992: Elections and Human Rights
Six members of the British Helsinki Human Rights Group visited the Republic of Georgia between 7th and 13th October, 1992, in order to observe the elections for the Speakership of the Parliament and its members called by the State Council for 11th October. Members of the delegation observed the voting in various parts of Georgia, but also visited Tbilisi Central Prison (twice), hospitals and other institutions. They talked with supporters and opponents of the State Council as well as non-political observers.
The New Order
The flight of Gamsakhurdia did not end the violence. Firstly because his supporters outside Tbilisi, especially in Western Georgia, continued to defy the new State Council until its well-equipped forces "pacified" them in late January/February, l992. In Tbilisi itself there were repeated incidents recorded on video of supporters of the new rеgime opening fire on unarmed demonstrators complaining about the coup. Such violent attacks on protestors continued intermittently (i.e. as often as crowds summoned up the courage to demonstrate) over the next six months.
Sometimes more subtle methods of crowd control were used. When it appeared impolitic to shoot at demonstrators, such as when Western statesmen visited Tbilisi to renew acquaintanceship with their old colleague, Eduard Shevardnadze, after his return in March l992, the forces of Ioseliani and Kitovani set German shepherd dogs on the crowds seeking to petition the representatives of Western democracy. After the first such incident in April, l992 when dogs were set on elderly women trying to see the German foreign minister, Hans- Dietrich Genscher, local wags started calling German shepherd dogs "Genschers" in ironic tribute to the major effect of his visit. Later, after even more violent clashes during US Secretary of State, James Baker's visit on 26 May, there was some dispute as to whether name the dogs or the.76 callibre bullets used by the regime's gunmen "Bakers".
Undoubtedly, James Baker's apparent indifference to the violent suppression of would-be petitioners seeking his help in finding out where their relatives had disappeared to, confused many Georgians who regarded the USA as the champion of democracy and human rights. The well-publicized comments of the US State Department's spokeswoman, Margaret Tutwiler, that "we strongly support Chairman Shevardnadze and the State Council of Georgia in their efforts to bring democracy and free markets to Georgia did little to bolster US prestige among critics of the rеgime.
რეიტერის ზემოთმითითებულ ცნობაში ტიპობრივი სიცრუეა: ვითომ საპროტესტო მიტინგი დაარბიეს ბეიკერის თბილისიდან გასვლის შემდეგ. იხილეთ ვიდეო და ფოტომასალა, რომელიც ადასტურებს, რომ ეს დარბევა სწორედ ბეიკერის „საზეიმო“ ღონისძიებისას მოხდა და სროლის ხმა ბეიკერს კარგად ესმოდა...
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