Nerko
05-02-2006, 03:36 AM
Hello! My parents are immigrants from the former Soviet Union, that is why I'm sort of interested in today's developments there. I try to follow current news from there and puzzle out the complex relations between former republics and the West forming my own opinion on the events.
Understandably, my primal attention is compelled to Georgia, as it seems to be the country with a most challenging situation, especially after Mikhail Saakashvili became power.
First of all, it must be admitted that Mikhail Saakashvili was receiving all-round support (both financial and political) from American government and various US NGOs (especially by that under the direction of Soros) and thus the US is basically and indirectly responsible for him and his activities. At least, Mikhail Saakashvili is sort of an advocate of American democracy model in Georgia. Let us see, how it works there.
In the first instance, what must be noted form the very beginning is that human rights conditions in Georgia are bad and getting worse constantly. Here we can mention overall rightlessness of Georgia's population - the folk has to suffer from outrage of authorities and law enforcement body. The right for private ownership is commonly violated in Georgia. Presumption of innocence was de facto abolished and people have to face detention without sufficient grounds while women countrywide are practically deprived of rights and are treated by males only as object for coition therefore sexual abuse and sex trade are widely spread here and even president Saakashvili himself is known to have descended to this. Besides, various national and religious minorities (like Abkhazians, Ossetians, Azerbaijani, Armenians, etc.) are widely discriminated in Georgia as well and their rights are violated.
Official establishment and law-enforcement authorities are involved in corruption practices while judiciary system is weak and fully controllable by the police.
Human rights violation also includes spread of inhuman torture practices in reference to inmates in Georgian prisons and abusive treatment by prison warders whereas inmates are kept in overcrowded prison cells in subhuman living conditions.
To crown this all, the body of executive power in Georgia delivers pressure on independent media and is strictly censoring it in order to, so to say, not air the dirty laundry in public.
What I mentioned really takes place in Georgia - you may find evidence to it on the Internet, on websites of various human rights organizations and political overviews. I only had to sum it all in a single post. It is unpleasant to know that Washington was supporting Mikhail Saakashvili well-meaningly and you see what they got in the end - an artful interpretation of American democracy model.
Understandably, my primal attention is compelled to Georgia, as it seems to be the country with a most challenging situation, especially after Mikhail Saakashvili became power.
First of all, it must be admitted that Mikhail Saakashvili was receiving all-round support (both financial and political) from American government and various US NGOs (especially by that under the direction of Soros) and thus the US is basically and indirectly responsible for him and his activities. At least, Mikhail Saakashvili is sort of an advocate of American democracy model in Georgia. Let us see, how it works there.
In the first instance, what must be noted form the very beginning is that human rights conditions in Georgia are bad and getting worse constantly. Here we can mention overall rightlessness of Georgia's population - the folk has to suffer from outrage of authorities and law enforcement body. The right for private ownership is commonly violated in Georgia. Presumption of innocence was de facto abolished and people have to face detention without sufficient grounds while women countrywide are practically deprived of rights and are treated by males only as object for coition therefore sexual abuse and sex trade are widely spread here and even president Saakashvili himself is known to have descended to this. Besides, various national and religious minorities (like Abkhazians, Ossetians, Azerbaijani, Armenians, etc.) are widely discriminated in Georgia as well and their rights are violated.
Official establishment and law-enforcement authorities are involved in corruption practices while judiciary system is weak and fully controllable by the police.
Human rights violation also includes spread of inhuman torture practices in reference to inmates in Georgian prisons and abusive treatment by prison warders whereas inmates are kept in overcrowded prison cells in subhuman living conditions.
To crown this all, the body of executive power in Georgia delivers pressure on independent media and is strictly censoring it in order to, so to say, not air the dirty laundry in public.
What I mentioned really takes place in Georgia - you may find evidence to it on the Internet, on websites of various human rights organizations and political overviews. I only had to sum it all in a single post. It is unpleasant to know that Washington was supporting Mikhail Saakashvili well-meaningly and you see what they got in the end - an artful interpretation of American democracy model.