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GEORGIA. Violence flared over the release of four Ossetians detained in connection with the fatal shooting of a nine-month-old infant last fall. Ossetian activists are campaigning for greater autonomy and cries persist to ) "overthrow the Communist regime in the republic." In Kareli, 50 miles northwest of Tbilisi, protesters demanding independence drove government workers out of their offices...
...April a peaceful demonstration by Georgian separatists in Tbilisi turned into a horror when army and Interior Ministry troops attacked the unarmed protesters with shovels, clubs and poison gas, killing 20. There have been similar nationalist flare-ups in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tadzhikistan...
...There was obviously a lot of concern about the military's role in suppressing the demonstrations in Tbilisi last April ((in which 20 people were killed)). An inquiry, which was published in the Georgian press, has some very critical things to say about the military leadership. What should be the role of the army in preserving order in the country...
...troops were deployed in Tbilisi was the decision of the Georgian government. It was not the decision of the military. It is, of course, another matter that everything ended so badly. But there are other areas, like Azerbaijan, where the armed forces are preventing events that result in | bloodshed and are keeping order. What happened in Georgia was a single incident. A painful event. But it did not happen at the initiative of the military. Our government learned a lesson: our armed forces do not participate in such events now, and local governments have no right to give them orders...
...Journalist-Deputy Yuri Chernichenko took a daring jab at Politburo conservative Yegor Ligachev, wondering why he had been placed in charge of agriculture when "he was absolutely ignorant of this sphere and had failed with ideology." Others called for a review of the events in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi last April, when soldiers and riot squads attacked demonstrators with shovels and, it is alleged, with poison gas, killing 20. The probing questions continued until the new First Vice President and nonvoting Politburo member, Anatoli Lukyanov, was moved to read out three hitherto secret telegrams sent from the Georgian party...