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may pull ninth nine hundred ninety one george are achieved independence from the u.s.s.r. . before a violent standoff with a rapidly disintegrating the soviet empire. we did get independence but it resulted in much blood in the structure. of a civil war broke out in georgia he has to susie insolvency to this day the nation has been unable to over a lot of demand the country's infrastructure is in ruins tens of thousands of people fled the country in the time of the soviet union juju is one of the

wealthiest republics today one third of the population lives below the poverty line twenty years have passed the people here enjoy less freedom and they did during the soviet period. back in one nine hundred eighty eight kids mellish billy was just a student he joined the mass from the strike outside government headquarters at that time the country was still cooled a georgian soviet socialist republic. that hunger strike which lasted eight or nine days triggered a movement of liberation i often sat on the steps with my friends. the number of protests is good day by day so somebody than a young historian lend his support to that cools. that independence was my

watchword at that time i didn't miss a single public action all right. in a police news thousands 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 dispatched vehicles and soldiers against peaceful demonstrators sixteen people died and hundreds were injured. a mathematician and the magnate 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 night in a sense. to have come so for the became the first president of a sovereign georgia in april one thousand nine hundred one after an election campaign where independence was the catchphrase but it soon as he came to power he didn't expect that independence. from this regions of south ossetia would come on sovereignty into ethnic conflicts began. georgia responded by sending troops to south ossetia. than a year later to a because he. once neighbors came enemies if you g.'s 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 refugees. 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 conflict. i leave it at his inability sions help tone the people apart when there was no enmity between individuals my neighbor said to me what am i supposed to do one of my sons in law is and has and that means my grandsons are presidents aren't they me and other daughter is married to a georgian so her children are georgians to any to tell my grandsons apart what am i supposed to do in this situation. it's a fighting between georgia standing army and causing an insurgent cost thousands of lives on the place sorry it's. tomorrow is not because you know 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. you have an opinion of that i would do like to have the word war confined to the history books will be my one new body to ever arteries again i wanted to be forgotten altogether. tomorrow and the 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. you. 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 severe gamsakhurdia as former associates demonstrated their discontent with the rule georgian intellectuals sent numerous letters to the president all seeing him to come to his senses gamsakhurdia responded by posing censorship. with. 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 have been opposed to. we've done. they trained to become a mathematician in the early ninety nine he left university and went into business

as elder brother you'll be chose the korea of an actor today he's very popular in georgia i his soul is 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 we're brothers we're 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 and the nine hundred ninety two standoff between

protesters and the regime erupt into street fighting involving all tillery and takes. games occurred here had to flee the country. seems it was shevardnadze with georgia's second president the experienced political heavyweights and back michelle goldberg perestroika soon after he took office he lifted the ban on opposition political parties and allowed independent media when i did it after i went into business in one nine hundred ninety three i launched a project called restore me to over ten years i turned the small studio in the provincial town of the study into a leading national broadcaster. the first star be to t.v. channel rushed out of 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

business one 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 a sort of quagmire that we have now didn't exist then. independent t.v. channel two 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 channel's editorial policy. the worst of the two t.v. channels and other georgian media pave the way for radical political transformations in november two thousand and three saw a bloodless coup in georgia dubbed the rose revolution. the second is really a young and ambitious person came to power. when i tended 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 any order coming from me is the law for the army no doubt the army would have defeated them the only after a bloodbath and i make no distinction between the two sides all of them and georgian citizens. mikhail saakashvili 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. down by the official party application your i phone or i pod touch from the i.q. saps to. watch r.t. life on the go. video on demand. oxys minefield costs an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the

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as soon as. he attempted to take control of the editorial policy of the country's leading independent t.v. channel. to its own kids mellish believe realize that his window of opportunity was quite snare of. the short deal stores he'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 our program as it turned out the regime's aim was to take control of the channels i think the blame for what i did because i gave away restudy to you know i didn't want. rock the boat . as about the same time george's media was going out of its way to report on

mikhail second police police reforms on face value the changes look quite impressive petty crime had been stamped out people now felt more secure on the streets of the towns of the us traffic patrols but stopped taking bribes. just. through the country's traffic police are totally free from corruption but you can get your license within a day after pain rates through official channels so instead of flying in somebody's spot it's. for many years knew no good general was speaker of the country's parliament and one of my hails billy's closest associates in two thousand and eight she resigned from the post of parliamentary speaker and founded an opposition party . oh yes there is a very serious problem by its corruption in the elite it has grown even larger

compared to what it was like in the last years of shevardnadze through when everybody was talking about corruption in georgia's government. there. was always an opposition moderates to psych us billy as the owner of a major medical insurance company he knows all too well the meaning of so called elite corruption. as soon as second in his inner circle came to power they set about collecting taxes and so-called dirty money which with the recent very many people to prison businessmen as well as former officials among them people realize they had better pay off as much as they were expected to pay i sold the property they ceded their shares in businesses to members of suckers gillies party prosecutor's office and the interior ministry kept a close eye on the deals that. pent up discontent fun erupted into a mass rally in november two thousand and seven according to various estimates

fifty to one hundred thousand opposition supporters came to the house a problem and into d.c. . for several days they kept around the clock vigil and then the seventh police be dispersed the peaceful rally hundreds of demonstrators were injured oh please take us. police detail people lying on the ground with batons. in the only remaining independent t.v. channel showed these events in tbilisi to a nationwide audience it was like shut down while it was on the air with a regular news bulletin. the middle of the middle of things by closing the channels the government is violating the constitution this means that this is a dictatorship regime misdemeanors coming into the studio i want to say thank you i hear shots in the control room you know which and i hope our employees will be in jersey cheer our guests. the

independent journalist of the tokamak 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 city in two thousand and eight. on this and 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 has said here hasn't been under georgia's direct rule since nine hundred ninety two michel psychist 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 l. there has been an ascension people don't need one either there is

a force that wants the defeat of the georgian and i pads in a city and i promise they won't let it happen i mean much. but in the early hours of august the eighth altering to come to the show symbolic from georgian territory in the morning troops were sent into the republic. it was the start of a military operation described by saakashvili as the introduction of constitutional order in the turret treat something such as. if i was woken up by a lot of noise everything was for. that shaking women outside was screaming and crying it was as if all of us had landed in hell after a volcanic eruption everybody stayed awake throughout the night the noise never died down but 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 etc he's not interested in politics and doesn't know the first thing about international relations but artists from around the world for his home to display their works one of the projects was called liquid art it was to have been implemented jointly with russian artists in late september two thousand and eight. the georgian word for this place is around here it isn't places like this that georgians traditionally made wine not to serve 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 i wine brand called liquid aren't. in the spring of two thousand and eight carom and

began building a pavilion for the exhibition he was still constructing it in august when another war broke out between south of setia in georgia. or do i went on building the pavilion 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 this. hostilities came to an end nine days later when russia sent troops into self-assertive 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 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 i can't repeat it for. me he'd say lives in a swiss hostel for political refugees friends keep him abreast of events by for. a hearing going to switzerland. 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 somebody 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 now the journalist is in hiding in a foreign country the ex is unemployed could be a qualified praise the authorities there would have been elected per second term they would even have changed the law to a 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 up to let's say is a famous georgian musician in protest against the second really 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 just saw. today in georgia means prison all of georgia is a prison but the georgian people made a mistake by electing what i call an illegitimate person. politician sportsman and artists all visited his cell to support the musician. heads the leading off position 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 to castles are full of them already the guy's a nuts they've made a saint out of make. his one man prison show again of the eleven pm and last until 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 t.v. a cage in the midst of a show was a strikingly symbolic act the people that filled the stadium and adjacent roads turned he'll be good church and that's a show into what amounted to a protest rally. on april ninth two thousand and nine leaves the pool opposition parties as their followers to take to the streets and to b.c. . just felt get out second street get out saakashvili yes

now gets out when you feel a little visitation 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 have united in to a policy. that our aim is to create a party that is without parallel and georgian history it 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 wine 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 affection as an embarrassment. georgia's rulers in recent years have been so different the one will be hard put to say which of them is fully to blame 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 in old warehouses turned into studios in moscow they were artists who are keen to participate in an international project that was to take place in the home of. 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 trying be for they do know that the employer takes they believe that in their beautiful country of long traditions funerals will give way to weddings and the street protests else did by projects

concerts and theatre festivals. culture is that so much an illegitimate that israel apparently finds the moslem freedom flotilla two point zero for a thousand fold palestinian activists from twenty two countries for such a joint freedom flotilla to end it. if. me please please please. please please please please. please please.

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