many georgian opposition parties and even his viet gamsakhurdia as former associates demonstrated their discontent with the rule georgian intellectuals sent numerous letters to the president asking them to come to his senses. responded by imposing censorship. and 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 one nine hundred ninety s. he left university and went into business his elder brother you'll be chose the career of an actor today he is very popular in georgia i 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 in 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 and the nine hundred

ended rally outside government headquarters they wanted independence for the republican georgia viet gamsakhurdia leader of a nationalist movement with 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 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 georgia might become independent is nine hundred ninety one never crossed my mind back in the late one nine hundred eighty s. . for the became the first president of a sovereign georgia in april nine hundred ninety one after an election campaign where independence was the catch phrase but as soon as he came to power he didn't expect that independence multo georgian autonomous regions. would take into ethnic conflicts began. georgia responded by sending troops to south says