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What do you think the real motives of the confrontation between the Georgian President and his former ally Irakly Okruashvili are?
Margo 3 October, 2007, 17:39
Thy went unnoticed. infact, he was arrested in a ghestapo-like fashion. Very democratic, I must say.
The point is that if Georgia is as undemocratic as its enemies claim Okruashvilis's accusations would never have made it onto the air. Are you suggesting no one watches Georgian TV??
I agree that his arrest looks bad, and I'm sure Georgia isn't perfect, but I really cannot understand why some of you have it in for this small, proud, independent nation.
Imagine if someone wanted to make such accusations against the Russian president. Would they get air time on TV? I think not.
The arrest of a member of the opposition after he made serious allegations, is not a democratic thing and is a very serious matter. What would you say if that happened in England, would you still say "oh well, at least he was on the TV".
I have nothing against Georgia and I have very good friends from there. What I don't like (and many Georgians don't like too) is a president who behaves like he does, a president who was "put" there by the US, which is not a secret for anyone. He is not there to buid democracy, the internal situation is quite bad and a lot of Georgians moved out of the country.
There should have been a trial on Okruashvili to ascertain if he really was saying the truth about the president or not, which never happened. And if he was really responsible for something other than saying the truth, then its right to arrest him (and the president as well). It still appears that the president in Georgia still has the "tsar" power.
Showing Okruashvili's confrontations on TV is not enough for a fair democratic state.
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