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Sunday, 21 March 2010

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Rubber bullets in law

2009-07-13 23:18 Chairman of Parliament David Bakradze admitted involuntarily that the current amendments might be characterized as purely political when he mentioned that it was not for 15 days but 15 years that the communists put their opponents behind bars on political grounds.

Thus, the "nationals" (as the Georgians call the ruling United National Movement) are no match for the communists, as well as for the democrats, for the ruling majority did not care to listen to the voice of minority in the parliament.

The parliamentary opposition made an attempt to refer to Themis for help. For, if the use of non-lethal weapons has been legalized only recently, it means that the use of rubber bullets in November 2007 and May 2009 was illegal. Consequently, the guilty are to be punished. "You have been stating for two years that the police have had the right to use this kind of weapon; if so, why are you demanding that this use should be legalized now?" - Vice Speaker of the Christian Democrats Levan Vephvadze addressed the ruling party delegates in the course of the debates.

However, the ruling majority kept insisting upon the fact that the current law does not allegedly ban the use of non-lethal weapon in order establishment. The fact was substantiated by the provision of the law stating that the police may use any weapons and instruments that are not banned by the international law standards. Delegate Pavle Kublashvili, one of the project co-authors, has said that the amendments became necessary "to specify the circumstances when the police can use non-lethal weapon".

Thus, it turns out that the ruling party is always right even in today's democratic Georgia. It is no coincidence that "the young reformers" who have made the Rose Revolution are compared in Georgia to "new Bolshevists".

The amendments to the Manifestations Law, as well as the method they are adopted, speak of the fact that the proclaimed dream, the democracy, is being reached using old methods. Moreover, this can be referred to both the ruling majority and the opposition striving for power. The latter is chanting "Away with Misha", having never taken any pains to present its own crisis management program to the public. The question is, where the methods practiced by the Georgian political elite are going to lead.

 

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Andrey Volkov

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