Georgia: Bunny Business at the Presidential Palace
Easter in Georgia: a time for church and family, not radical politics. Most of the opposition protesters who’ve been blockading the main street of the capital outside parliament for several days went home for the weekend, although they left their barricades in place to indicate that they had only taken a brief holiday from their efforts to oust President Mikheil Saakashvili.
In the shadow of the egg-shaped glass dome which crowns Saakashvili’s ostentatious official residence, a few bedraggled activists took shelter from afternoon showers in mock prison cells which were set up to highlight their allegation that Georgia has become a ‘police state’. Nearby, security police in black ski masks prowled restlessly, on guard against any attempt to breach the gates. But in no genuine police state would protesters be permitted to hang posters insulting their country’s leader on the fence outside his office.
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- 04.22.09 / 5pm by Onnik
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- Blogs, Democracy, Demonstrations, Georgia, Matthew Collin, News Briefs, Rallies
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