| Follow-up to yesterday's post. |
Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili has declared a 48-hour state of emergency in the capital, Tbilisi. The announcement by the country's prime minister came after police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse demonstrators protesting for the sixth day against the Georgian president.
Riot police used water cannon, tear gas and batons to disperse demonstrators from the area around the parliament building in Tbilisi, the scene of six days of mass protests against Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. People fled the area with not only inflamed eyes, but inflamed passions, denouncing the Georgian leader as a dictator. Opposition activist Ivlian Khaindrava compared him to Bolsheviks, who seized power in Russia exactly 90 years ago. |