[Peace-discuss] Declaration of the Georgian Peace Committee

[C. G. Estabrook]

	Declaration of the Georgian Peace Committee

Once more Georgia was launched into a situation of chaos and bloodshed.  A new 
fratricide war exploded with renewed strength on Georgian soil.

To our great disillusion, the alerts of the Georgian Peace Committee and of 
progressive personalities of Georgia on the pernicious character of the 
militarization of the country and on the danger of a pro-fascist and nationalist 
policy had no effect.

The authorities of Georgia, organized, again, a blood war, feeling the support 
of some western countries and of regional and international organizations.  The 
shame poured by the current holders of the power over the Georgian people will 
take decades to be cleansed.

The Georgian army, armed and trained by American instructors and using also 
American armaments, subjected the city of Tskhinvali to a barbaric destruction. 
  The bombings killed Ossetian civilians, our brothers and sisters, children, 
women and elderly people.  Over two thousand inhabitants of Tskhinvali and of 
its surroundings died.

There also died hundreds of civilians of Georgian nationality, both in the 
conflict zone as well as on the entire territory of Georgia.

The Georgian Peace Committee expresses its deep condolences to the relatives and 
friends of those who have perished.

The entire responsibility for this fratricidal war, for thousands of children, 
women and elderly dead people, for the inhabitants of South Ossetia and of 
Georgia falls exclusively to the current President, to the Parliament and to the 
Government of Georgia.  The irresponsibility and adventurism of the Saakashvili 
regime have no limits.  The President of Georgia and his team, undoubtedly, are 
criminals and must be held responsible.

The Georgian Peace Committee, together with all the progressive parties and 
social movements of Georgia, is going to struggle so that the organizers of this 
monstrous genocide have a severe and legitimate punishment.

The Georgian Peace Committee asks the broad public opinion not to identify the 
current Georgian leadership with the people of Georgia, with the Georgian 
nation, and appeals to all to support the Georgian people in the struggle 
against the criminal regime of Saakashvili.

We appeal to all the political forces of Georgia, the social movements and the 
people of Georgia to unite in order to free the country of the anti-popular, 
russophobic and pro-fascist regime of Saakashvili!

The Georgian Peace Committee
Tbilisi, 11th of August of 2008

[The Georgian Peace Committee's declaration in English was first published in 
The Christian Radical, a Catholic Worker information and resource service run by 
the CW community of Vancouver, Canada, and Creative-i, the sister site of 
Investigating New Imperialism, on 12 August 2008.]

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/georgia120808.html