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Government Does not Aid Course-Mate of Shalva Natelashvili

December 17, 2009

Vano Mamagulashvili from Dvani village thinks that he is persecuted on political grounds by district governor and single mandate MP from their district Emzar Gelashvili. He said the MP personally threatened him and said that Mamagulashvili will neither be compensated nor his burnt house will be restored.

Vano Mamagulashvili’s house was burnt during the war in August, 2008. He said he was a course-mate of Shalva Natelashvili, leader of the Labor Party and he is persecuted for that.

“I learned together with Shalva Natelashvili at the Law Faculty. Our course celebrates the anniversary of graduation from the university every year. Shalva always attends these meetings. Apparently, the government knows about it and they consider me to be an oppositionist in the village. Consequently, they do not give me a house or compensation. Generally, I am persecuted. Early in November regional governor and district governor arrived in Dvani and visited village center. My burnt house is located there. I asked the regional and district governors to come and see my house but they said they did not care about it. What are they interested in then?! I have enough education to appeal against our country at the European Court,” said Vano Mamagulashvili.

Kareli district governor, Ilia Burjanadze confirmed that Vano Mamagulashvili really had a building burnt during the war but it was not a house but a shop.

Mamagulashvili replied to the district governor, that he had a shop in the house. Besides that, the government compensated several shop-owners in the village of Karaleti in Gori district.

Ilia Burjanadze excludes similar possibility in Dvani village in Kareli district. He claims Vano Mamagulashvili illegally requests the compensation and rehabilitation of the shop.

Saba Tsistsikashvili, Gori

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