{"id":2948,"date":"2024-09-15T06:28:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T06:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2024-09-16T01:38:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T01:38:53","slug":"georgia-to-apologize-for-starting-2008-war-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/2024\/09\/15\/georgia-to-apologize-for-starting-2008-war-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia to apologize for starting 2008 war \u2013 media"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former prime minister has described the conflict as a deliberate provocation aimed at dividing Georgians and Ossetians<\/strong><\/p>\n

Former Georgian prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili has accused the country’s United National Movement (UNM) party founded by\u00a0ex-president Mikhail Saakashvili of inciting the 2008 war in South Ossetia.<\/p>\n

The country will find the strength to apologize to the Ossetians for the \u201cbloody conflict\u201d<\/em> and strive to restore trust and unity between the two brotherly nations, he added.<\/p>\n

The US-educated Saakashvili formed\u00a0the pro-Western UNM party in 2001 and served as president of Georgia from 2004 to 2013. In August 2008, he\u00a0ordered\u00a0troops into\u00a0the breakaway region of Ossetia, shelling a Russian peacekeeper base used by Moscow’s troops since the first conflict on the territory in 1990.<\/p>\n

Moscow responded with a \u201cpeace enforcement\u201d<\/em> operation, defeating Georgian forces and recognizing the independence of South Ossetia and another breakaway region, Abkhazia, as a result.<\/p>\n

Saakashvili was voted out of office in 2013 and eventually pursued a political career in post-Maidan Ukraine, becoming governor of Odessa. He is now serving a six-year prison sentence on charges related to abuse of power, among other offenses.<\/p>\n

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Speaking at an election campaign event in the city of Gori on Saturday, Ivanishvili, who leads the ruling Georgian Dream party, claimed that\u00a0a 12-year investigation concluded the 2008 conflict was \u201cprovoked by Saakashvili\u2019s criminal regime\u201d <\/em>with \u201coutside\u201d <\/em>assistance, and was aimed at disrupting national unity and dividing the two brotherly nations.<\/p>\n

Numerous pieces of evidence compiled by the Georgian government\u00a0have\u00a0implicated the\u00a0National Movement party in starting the war and committing \u201cthe worst crime,\u201d <\/em>he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were well aware that all this was a well-planned provocation from the outside against the Georgian and Ossetian people, the purpose of which was to split our unity, destroy relations, and make us exist in conditions of endless, artificial confrontation,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Ivanishvili said.<\/p>\n

He stressed the importance of recognizing past mistakes and restoring territorial integrity, as well as \u201cthe centuries-old brotherhood and friendship between Georgians and Ossetians.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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He also condemned the \u201cinstigator of the war\u201d<\/em> and vowed to bring those responsible for destroying relations between Georgia and Ossetia to justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will definitely find the strength to apologize for the flames which enveloped our Ossetian brothers and sisters in 2008 on the orders of the traitorous National Movement,\u201d<\/em> he continued, pledging that United National Movement officials will face a Georgian \u201cNuremberg process,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0referring to the post-WWII trials of\u00a0Nazi German war criminals.<\/p>\n

Last month, the Georgian government said it would set up a parliamentary commission to assess the events of 2008, claiming that Saakashvili acted on instructions\u00a0\u201cfrom the outside,\u201d<\/em> which constitutes \u201ca well-planned betrayal.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The former president could face additional charges of treason, potentially leading to a life sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A former prime minister has described the conflict as a deliberate provocation aimed at dividing Georgians and Ossetians Former Georgian prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili has accused the country’s United National Movement (UNM) party founded by\u00a0ex-president Mikhail Saakashvili of inciting the 2008 war in South Ossetia. The country will find the strength to apologize to the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2953,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions\/2953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}