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“If we dare to die, the Russian visa will be required for accessing the graveyard.”
September 7, 2010
The area of the occupied territories of Georgia has increased by two more kilometers. Though our government doesn’t divulge this information, it’s been about two months now the Russian army units occupied the big part of Tvauri settlement in the village Lamisyana, Kaspi region and divided it by bank that hinders the residents to have an access to their homes. The big part of the rural land of Lamisyana happened to fall inside the occupied territory. So, it turns out that the Russian occupants are nearer to Tbilisi, precisely 24 kilometers afar.
Homeless IDPs Sued Koba Subeliani at the UN
September 2, 2010
Part of IDPs Refuse to Lodge In Former Medical Center
September 2, 2010
About 60 IDP families from Abkhazia have been living in the national center of ophthalmology and neurology in Tbilisi for many years already. In 2007 the company New Hospital within PSP Group purchased the building and started construction of a new medical clinic in it. Consequently, the 39 IDP families are supposed to be evicted from the one part of the building.
Boarders of Potskhoetseri – Reportage from Exile
September 1, 2010
The Ministry of IDPs from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees of Georgia resettled 12 IDP families from Tbilisi to Potskhoetseri settlement without any preliminary dialogue and thorough discussion of the issue. This forced special operation was rather exile then settlement. There were two pregnant women, three infants, six under-age children and nine sick people among the evicted IDPs.
IDPs On Hunger-Strike Request Compensation within 10 000 USD In front Of Koba Subeliani’s Ministry
September 1, 2010
It’s time for government to stop oppressing IDPs
August 30, 2010
Georgia under fire over refugee evictions
August 30, 2010
TBILISI, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Georgia is coming under fire from human rights groups over the forced eviction of hundreds of people displaced by war from state-owned buildings the government hopes to privatise.
Lips Sewn Shut with Black Thread
August 26, 2010
Approximately 10 people have been on a hunger strike at the Ministry of IDPs for two days now. Four of them have sewn their lips shut. The Ministry officials are taking vacations.
The Protest Rally at Tbilisi City Council (Sakrebulo) has ended.
August 26, 2010
“Basishvili Clan” Against One Family
August 24, 2010
Marina Bejashvili, diagnosed with second stage of oncologic disease, lives in the 111th cottage of Khurvaleti settlement. It has been 8 months now the electricity is turned off in her house. Energo-Pro Georgia representatives switched the electricity off as a compulsory measure since her family had a debt of more than 500 lari. According to Transparency International Georgia, these debts are payments for the electricity spent during the cottage constructions.
The public defender advises Koba Subeliani to emphasize certain aspects of the eviction process of IDPs
August 19, 2010
The public defender shares the inevitability of the long-term eviction of IDPs, issued by the government order (according to 2009-2012 state strategy concerning the IDPs). The ombudsman addresses the Ministry of IDPs from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees to emphasize on the certain aspects of the eviction process.
The Opposition activists arrested at the protest rally of IDPs and the open market sellers
August 18, 2010
On February 19th, the Transfiguration Day, the joint protest rally of IDPs and the open market sellers ended up with the arrest of the opposition party members. The police officers arrested one of the leaders of the “People’s Party,” Aleko Shalamberidze and the founder of the youth movement “No.” They tried to arrest the “Conservative Party” member Lasha Chkhartishvili as well, but because of the resistance of the protest rally participants, they could not manage to do so.
The government is oppressing IDPs
August 18, 2010
“The Bartholomew night for IDPs” – this is how media evaluated the mass eviction of the IDPs from Tbilisi compact residence places. For an unpopular process like this, government chose the politically most passive month –August. Most of the opposition party leaders take vacations in different resorts at this time; the same can be said about the ordinary citizens – the live force of the protest rallies.
IDP from Abkhazia on Hunger Strike at the War Hero Memorial of Heroes’ Square
August 16, 2010
Iza Gvajaia family evicted from so-called Isani Military Hospital
August 13, 2010
Living in “Severe Conditions”
August 13, 2010
“The Georgian authorities must do more than the bare minimum to provide adequate housing, employment and access to health care to those displaced as a result of the conflicts in the 1990s and the war with Russia in August 2008. Displaced people need more than just roofs over their heads,” – stated Nicola Duckworth, Europe and Central Asia Programm director of the international organization “Amnesty International.”
The government chose a politically “dead season” to fight the open market sellers and IDPs.
August 12, 2010
The heat of August reached its peak in Tbilisi. Nobody wants to come out in the 40-50 degrees, but the police is using the “dead season” to attack the open market sellers and IDPs. The open market sellers and IDPs are holding protest rallies, but few people support them in the heat of the summer, except for Lasha Chkhartishvili from the “Conservative Party” and Aleko Shalamberidze from “People’s Party,” the names that appear whenever the talk about the eviction of the open market sellers occurs.
The IDPs from Abkhazia Blaming the Public Defender in the Neglectfulness
August 10, 2010
The Next Protest Rally Held by the IDPs
August 9, 2010
“When we were losing the Kodori Valley, I knew that it would be very hard to get it back”
August 9, 2010
Exactly two years ago, the separatist armies of Russia and Abkhazia raised their flags in Chkhalta. The elders and children had already left the Kodori Valley, later, all the Svans left the place as well. It’s been two years now that upper Abkhazia is left in the hands of the occupants. The Svans from Kodori are living with their memories.