Pro-Russian Georgian Oligarch Makes Scandalous Statement About The War

The opposition came out to protest.

In Tbilisi, Gori and other Georgian cities on Sunday evening there were few but noisy protests of supporters of the United National Movement (UNM) opposition party of Mikheil Saakashvili. Their participants express indignation at the promise of the founder and honorary chairman of the ruling party "Georgian Dream" pro-Russian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili to arrange, as he put it, the "Nuremberg Trial" over the UNM immediately after the parliamentary elections on October 26, and at the end of the trial "an apology to the Ossetian brothers and sisters" for the fact that Saakashvili "on the instructions of external forces subjected them to a fiery flame" in August 2008, giving the order to bomb the capital of the self-proclaimed South Ossetia Tskhinvali, Radio Liberty reports.

According to one of the youth organizations, Dafioni, which staged a rally in Tbilisi on Rustaveli Avenue near the parliament building on Sunday, with this statement Bidzina Ivanishvili "equated Georgian soldiers with Russian terrorists" and "accused them of genocide of the Ossetian people." “Collaborators must receive a decent response. No to the Kremlin's diktat!" Dafioni said in a statement.

With the initiative of Georgian-Ossetian reconciliation and the need to "find the strength to apologize to Ossetian brothers and sisters", the honorary chairman of the ruling party, considered the "shadow leader" of the Caucasian country, spoke in Gori during a large election rally held near the place where the Russian Iskander missile with a cluster warhead fell on August 12, 2008, killing dozens of local residents and a Dutch cameraman.

"At the end of the elections on October 26, when the perpetrators of the war will be convicted, when absolutely all those responsible for the destruction of the Georgian-Ossetian brotherhood and coexistence will receive a strict legal response, we will certainly find the strength to apologize for the fact that, in accordance with the assignment received, the treacherous "NationalMovement " in 2008 enveloped our Ossetian sisters and brothers in the flames of fire," Ivanishvili said at the election rally.

According to the leader of the ruling party, "the enmity imposed on our peoples by the enemies of Georgia will end with historical mutual forgiveness and sincere reconciliation... Long live our Ossetian sisters and brothers! Long live United Georgia!" said Ivanishvili. He did not specify who he meant by the enemies of Georgia.

Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been imprisoned for the third year on the verdict of the Tbilisi court for abuse of office, called the statements of Bidzina Ivanishvili "historically shameful treason."

“Instead of demanding that Russia apologize for the misfortunes it has inflicted on our country, Ivanishvili demands that Georgians apologize to the invader. We will not be able to wash away this shame for a long time," the ex-president was indignant.

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