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Violent crackdown in Georgia

FB-AUCPB | 27.05.2011 10:52 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Can think of any reason why this posting was removed yesterday, as a breach of Inydmedia guidlines..but anyway...I'll try again...


NATO brown nosing and US lackey georgian leaders' riot troops open fire on on anti-government protestors demonstrating against poverty, unemplyment etc. Obama will sit on the fence for this one......



Violent crackdown on anti-government protesters in Georgia
Demonstrators demanding the resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili come under attack from Georgian riot police.


In the country's capital Tblisi, several hundred opposition supporters accused President Saakashvili of monopolising power since the Rose Revolution of 2003 which removed the post-Soviet old guard from power.

The Caucasus state is of strategic importance as its pipelines carry Caspian oil to the West and it lost a very brief war with Russia in 2008.

Since then, say critics President Saakashvili has reasserted control over the country prompting calls for him to go before the end of his presidential term in 2013.

Protestors initially gathered outside the parliament building, spreading to the main square where some refused to move when riot police arrived.

The video shows protesters being struck with batons and soaked with water cannon. Choking clouds of tear gas cover the city streets.

youtube watch

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds13WV3ggNg

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