Story about Igor Merabishvili and Vano Rodionov

We celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the Georgian Independence with blood, dead people and fake military parade.

It was the decision of the Georgian President who is parting with his citizens day-by-day and hides behind riot police, army, tanks and automatic firearms. It is his narrow world where we hear only gun-blazing and teeth-chattering, sometimes dances and singing of his court dancers and singers.

Saakashvili is a hostage of his own paranoia with its characteristic symptom – reformer’s mumbling; in addition to that, he has increasing aggression towards people.

Thus, eventually, the autocrat governor is turning into a dictator.

The ruthless dispersal of the protest demonstration of the Public Assembly by the MIA Riot Police goes beyond the term – “excessive use of power,” – the lawyers used this term when assessing the dispersal of the night to May 26. We should rather say that it was exemplary punishment of people with different political opinion, to revenge against them in order to prevent others to express their protest in public.

The government-controlled TV-Channels reported about the death of only two persons and the MIA also confirmed it. The society doubts that the bloody storm of the riot police killed more than 10 people. We can neither prove nor deny the information. In parallel to it, the independent media reports about disappeared people who are not mentioned by the pro-governmental TV-Companies at all.

In the situation of insufficient unbiased information, controversial news make us more confused and disables people to impartially evaluate the situation. However, how could so many people get lost from the Rustaveli Avenue? There are two versions: they were killed and the information is kept in secret in order not to anger the society, or – they are detained and the family members are not informed about their whereabouts.

People are looking for the missing people in police stations, hospitals, and mortuaries. The family is looking for a leader of the Public Assembly Irakli Batiashvili too. “He is either dead, or so ruthlessly beaten that they do not want us to see him,” said his wife.

Disappearance of people is a working style of the Georgian MIA; the trait of Vano Merabishvili (the minister of interior).
I do not agree with comparing the dispersal of May 26, 2011 with the tragic events of April 9, 1989 but I cannot help sharing the opinion of several people who draw parallels between these two tragedies.

Igor Rodionov (Russian general) attacked the demonstrators from one side but gave free way in other three directions to run away. Vano Merabishvili sieged the demonstrators so that they could not leave the area and riot police had chance to punish everybody who was in the area.

Igor Merabishvili’s (sorry - Rodionov’s) soldiers drubbed people with spades, Vano Rodionov’s (sorry Merabishvili’s) riot police officers pushed citizens down the ground and ruthlessly, sadistically beat them.

Video-recordings show that members of the Public Assembly were armed with sticks and stones. It is not strange from people who express their protest against the government. However, it does not mean that riot police shall siege them and not allow them to run away. The purpose of the police shall not be dispersal of illegal manifestation and punishment of people with different opinion.

With this letter, I wanted to express my protest in an aggressive form. I wanted to speak out of the position of the missing people.

I started from the President Saakashvili and finished with the Minister of Interior “Rodionov.”

Just imagine that I am also holding a stick and am throwing a stone.

Shall I hope that I will not disappear?