actually making the fight in the war on terrorism against al qaeda works we we have shifted i am amazed i am i am so disappointed in obama that he is actually shifting resources to finance al-qaeda rebels and to finance it to provide us in force meant of the al qaeda presence in libya now i just want to tell you for i want to tell your viewers we have a video documentation that is coming from refugees fleeing the rebel strongholds and they're bringing out video from their camera phones that they're recording just on the site on the spot videos of beheadings videos of castration castration where they are. the eyes of men who oppose the libyan rebels women are being raped and subjected to having the breasts cut all i mean it all sounds and i think i wish it has more time to talk about it but maybe

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just first. phone a pool ninth nine hundred ninety one george or achieve independence from the u.s.s.r. to know the sort of thought and standoff with the rest of the disintegrating soviet empire. but we did get independence but it resulted in much blood in the struction . the civil breakouts in georgia has to suzi again sovereignty to this day the nation has been unable to overcome it's off the map the country's infrastructure is in ruins tens of thousands of people fled the country in the time of the soviet union georgia was one of the wealthiest republics today one third of the population

lives below the poverty law i felt more than twenty years have passed the people here enjoy less freedom than they did during the soviet period. i can no nine hundred eighty eight it all seek its mellish really was just a student enjoying the mess from destroyed outside government headquarters at that time the country was still cool to the georgian soviet socialist republic. that hunger strike which lasted eight or nine days triggered a movement of liberation i often sat on the steps of my friends. the number of protesters good day by day so the then a young historian lend his support to the cools. because independence was my watchword at that time i didn't miss

a single public action all right. in april listening celss of people gathered in tbilisi for an open ended rally outside government headquarters they wanted independence for the republican ga. the gamsakhurdia leader of a nationalist movement was the speaker who made the most extremist remarks in an intensely dramatic speech. in the early hours of april ninth the soviet government despised armored vehicles and soldiers against peaceful demonstrators sixteen people died and hundreds were injured. a mathematician and would be magnet of georgia was lucky enough to evade even injury. we were in too much of a hurry we were trying to study history to help move it forward what happened then had to happen but of course the thought the georgian might become independent is ninety ninety one never crossed my mind back in the late ninety nine cents. here

comes the became the first president of a sovereign georgia in april nine hundred ninety one after an election campaign where independence was the catchphrase but it soon as he came to power he didn't expect independence from georgia or from this region and south ossetia. into ethnic conflicts began. to be responded by sending troops to suffer says here . than a year later. people were once neighbors became bitter enemies thousands of refugees fled to georgia. as far as i know years ago this building was meant to be a hospital. but there is no hospital in it now. the building is used as a shelter for refugee that's. thousands of the georgians who have left the early

one nine hundred ninety s. still live in makeshift shelters they have lost everything homes jobs and even the hope to return to their home country georgians and cousins alike have gone through a lot of suffering such as the horrors of war and loss of loved ones and yet they don't blame one another for that's conflict. i leave it at his inability sions have toned people apart there was no enmity between individuals my neighbor said to me what am i supposed to do one of my sons in law is in a pansy and that means my grandsons are peasants aren't they. and other daughter is married to a georgian so her children are georgians do i need to tell my grandsons apart what am i supposed to do in this situation. it's a fighting between georgia standing army and a cause yet insurgents cost thousands of lives on both sides.

tomorrow is not causing woman four of her five sons died in the war the youngest was seventeen when he volunteered to fight his grave is close to his father's. governable move there i would dearly like to have the world war confined to the history books to read my one new body to ever arteries again i wanted to be forgotten altogether radio. tomorrow and a husband wanted the new house to have enough room for all the children and their future families but now it's almost uninhabited one of the rooms houses a memorial museum to their family it features their son's medals they received and the letters they sent from the front line to more especially treasures objects made by her children i want in this is the root of a pine tree they made

a heart out of it. but. my second son enjoyed making such things here she died in the battle on the same day as my youngest son. many georgian opposition parties and even his viet gamsakhurdia former associates demonstrated their discontent with the rule georgian intellectuals sent numerous letters to the president asking him to come to his senses. on that by imposing censorship. of the ninety ninety one law even denied registration for all political parties it was indorsed by people who had served terms in soviet prisons and campaigned for georgia's freedom and independence. most people did what they themselves had been opposed to. they trained to become a mathematician in the early ninety nine he left university and went into business

his elder brother you'll be chose the korea of an actor today he's very popular in georgia. his songs in short films have an uncanny bearing on the country's present day situation. i had no desire to get involved in the war in a cause or i'm such a war where brothers were killing brothers so i decided to stay away from georgia for a time there were. those who were displeased with the first president gathered to openly demand his resignation the nine hundred ninety two standoff between protesters and the regime erupt into street fighting involving all tillery and

tanks. the cancer could had to flee the country. six it was shevardnadze with georgia's second president the experience political heavyweights and back michelle goldberg spellers story. soon after he took office he lifted the ban on opposition political parties and allowed independent media we're not europe after i went into business in one nine hundred ninety three i launched a project called restore me to over ten years i tender small studio in the provincial town of the star me into a leading national broadcaster. the first study to t.v. channels rushed out at the country's new leaders including president eduard shevardnadze and was focused on runaway corruption. sure corruption in the economic sphere was enormous after seven knots or came to power but on the other hand businessmen learns new skills in tune with modern times and

a real market economy took shape true there was pervasive corruption from top to bottom but there was also freedom of speech and individual liberty that sort of caught my eye that we have now it didn't exist then. independent t.v. channel or starving to became a so-called platform for the opposition and had great political weight but president shevardnadze who declared freedom of speech as a principle made no attempt to sway the channels editorial policy. the worst of the two t.v. channel and other georgian media pave the way for radical political transformations november two thousand and three saw a bloodless coup in georgia dubbed the rose revolution we hail a circus really a young and ambitious person came to power. and those are both when i send my resignation of my own free will to prevent bloodshed when they burst into the house

of parliament i went out into the street to meet my followers then you would a coming from me is the law for the army no down the army would have defeated them then me off their blood because i make no distinction between the two sides all of them and georgian citizens. like i should believe had promised to beat corruption and lead the nation to prosperity however it was the press that was the first victim of his law and order. issues that so much of an oldish reason to share power that the mark of freedom flotilla two point zero four thousand pro palestinian activists from twenty two countries perspective joint freedom flotilla two innit. wealthy british style.

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was quite snare of. the short story she's ambition to take control of the channel it goes back to two thousand and four where the new system of government seemed to be weak we thought we needed to build a viable state first and then take care of the rest of us with as it turned out the regime's aim was to take control of the channels and i think the blame for what i did because i gave away restudy to you know i didn't want to rock the boat because . as about the same time george's media was going out of its way to report on mikhail saakashvili as police reforms on face value the changes look quite impressive petty crime had been stamped out people know more secure on the streets of the towns of the dos traffic patrols that stopped taking freud's. it's true the country's traffic police are totally free from corruption but you can get your license within a day after pain right through official channels instead of flying in someplace

pockets. for many years nino good jeanette's a speaker of the country's economy and one of my. closest associates in two thousand and eight she resigned from the post of parliamentary speaker and founded opposition party. now you see there is a very serious problem by its corruption in the elite it has grown even launch a compact to what it was like in the last years of shevardnadze is through when everybody was talking about corruption in georgia's government. there. was always an opposition moderates to saakashvili as the owner of a major medical insurance company he knows all too well the meaning of so called elite corruption saga through the soonest suckers really in his inner circle came to power they set about collecting taxes and circle dirty money with that they sent

very many people to present a business man as well as former officials among them people realize they had better pay off as much as they were expected to pay they sold the property they ceded the shares and businesses to members of suckers believe part of the prosecutor's office and the interior ministry kept a close eye on the deals. ten top discontent finally erupted into a mass rally in the event but two thousand and seven according to various estimates fifty to one hundred thousand opposition supporters came to the house a problem to be seen. for several days they kept around the top vigil on november seventh police barlinnie dispersed the peaceful rally hundreds of demonstrators were injured oh please take us. police the top people lying. on the grounds of patents. in the only remaining independent t.v. channel showed these events in tbilisi to

a nationwide. it was like shut down while it was on the air with a regular news bulletin. the meeting of the meeting of seems by closing the channel the government is violating the constitution this means that this is a dictatorship regime ots misdemeanors schroeder here they are coming into the studio i want to say thank you i hear shots in the control room for generations i hope our employees will be in jersey cheer our guests. the independent journalist of the time coma he'd say became popular in georgia in the mid ninety's ninety's enjoyed asking unpleasant questions no matter who is in power comma he says now in hiding in switzerland his latest piece of investigative journalism concerns the armed conflict between georgia and south a setia in two thousand and eight. on this for me i know of no journalist who would not have wanted to get

a scandal to get the facts. but all the state media summed up my work there is high treason. the self-proclaimed republic of south asia hasn't been under george's direct rule since nine hundred ninety two. really repeated many times the republic had to return to georgia and he promised to settle the situation through diplomacy . we don't need a war there has been an ascension people don't need one either there is a force that wants the defeat of the georgian enough has an assyrian people i promise they won't let it happen i mean much. but in the early hours of august the altering repeated showed symbolic from georgian territory in the morning troops were sent into the republic. it was the start of the military operation described by second really of the introduction of constitutional order in the turret tree south of setia.

i was woken up by a lot of noise everything was for. shaking we went outside with screamin and cryin it was as if all of us had landed in hell after evil canuck irruption everybody stayed awake throughout the night the noise never died down not even for a second. color man could hurt a lot of lives in an old house on the outskirts of the village of kalak cooler fifteen kilometers from the border with south a thirty year he's not interested in politics and doesn't know the first thing about international relations but alters from around the world for to his home to display their works one of the our projects was called liquid it would have been implemented jointly with russian artists in late september two thousand and eight.

the georgian word for this place is from around here it is in places like this the georgians traditionally make wine not are so different nationalities are going to contribute to georgian traditions they will get in to press grapes with their feet just as it was done in the old days a year later we were going to jointly made products a wine brand called liquid aunt. in the spring of two thousand and eight karen man began building a pavilion for the exhibition he was still constructing it in august when another war broke out between south and said here in georgia. i went on building the prevailing in during the war fighting was going on right behind the mountain fifteen kilometers from here i saw the flashes and heard the bombings i also saw helicopters up in the air.

hostilities came to an end nine days later when russia sent troops into south and said here to separate the warring parties georgia subsequently broke off diplomatic relations with russia. when investing come a he was working on a film about the georgian city and conflict he made arrangements for an interview with the european human rights campaign is to be held in geneva shortly before he was due to go the journalist received a tip off that he had better stay in switzerland. all sorts of problems cropped out after my return from senegal because i won't talk about them because my words may get in the way of the investigation. i can only tell you that i received open threats and heard something so humiliating that a country be a full. tank on the he day lives in

a swiss hostel for political refugees friends keep him abreast of events by. a hearing going to swiss ones. that's right in october by that time you must complete all formalities concerning immigration chances are i myself will return home by then that there is a regime change. did you say regime change yes why not that's a possibility. although we hope so. vegetating and so is us a body have been friends ever since they went to school together when parliament appointed to the post. he gave his friend a job in his office when his first term of office came to an end annoyed him a second term and now the journalist is in hiding in a foreign country x. and that's when is unemployed could be a while if i praise the authorities i would have been elected first second term

they would even have changed the law to let me for ten terms. in the last presidential election. was officially the runner up his party's headquarters supplied the zero s c e commission with evidence documenting scores irregularities some of them made public in the commission's conclusions but the final report ultimately described the election as valid. view he gets at a let's say is a famous georgian musician in protest against the second should be regime he decided to barricaded himself in a television studio made up to look like a prison cell for several months he stayed in the room with four t.v. cameras tracking his every move. to date georgia means prison with all of

georgia as a prison but the georgian people made a mistake by electing what i call an illegitimate person. politician sportsman and artists who visit his cell to support the musician. heads the leading opposition party he visited his brother three times during his self-imposed imprisonment. how are you so so what are you i get loads of letters two possibles are full of them already the guy's a nuts they may just same time to make. his one man prison show again at eleven pm and last till morning the following day the whole country would discuss what had been said during the night after two months of self confinement you only get such a lot they took time out for a public appearance at the b.b.c. stadium levy a cage in the midst of the show was

a strikingly symbolic act the people who would fill the stadium and jason robards turned he'll be good church loves a show into what amounted to a protest rally. and they put in mind two thousand and nine leaders of all opposition parties those their followers to take to the streets in tbilisi. just felt get out second street get out saakashvili guess now gets out and you see you know it all position has never said saakashvili is our president we call him a de facto rather than does your president. today the former participants in the rallies for georgia's independence the united into a party. our aim is to create a party that is without parallel and georgian history and should be a party based on genuine national values shared by most people in our country. the

leader of the new party is live and. a former magnets in the wind industry he has the support of this really the architect of the country's leading television company and george's last ambassador to russia the party's third leader is a historian who has won the nation's a fictional as an honest woman. georgia rule is in recent years have been so different one would be hard put to say which of them is fully to plain for the present day situation there are no independent courts of law democratic institutions are not allowed to develop and the country's people are intimidated in the autumn of two thousand and eight a group of friends met an old warehouses turned into studios in moscow they were all says who are keen to participate in an international project that was to take place in the home of color many. of them will this is a remarkably exquisite european style project but i think we need to make slight

changes to emphasize a note of sorrow in it merry making is out of place after what happened you don't do that at a funeral the funeral still goes on. the russian artists didn't visit their georgian friends in either two thousand and eight or later they have decided against going to georgia for the troy be for they do know that the impala ticks they believe that in their beautiful country of long traditions funerals will give way to weddings and the street protests else did by our projects concerts and theatre festivals. sure is that so much of the seminole there's a huge music issue sometimes from the marlin freedom flotilla two point zero four thousand fold palestinian activists from twenty two countries are set to join the

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