{"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 \n Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n