Abkhazia, the trying to be independent region of Georgia (a la Kosovo) is a bit of a blind spot for our Misha Saakashvili. He wants it back, and he wants it back now!
It was one of his election platforms to say that we (including the IDPs) would be returning there, with him in front. Insults have been traded for years over this. I would say, let it go, but the IDPs who lost property there after the events of about 1994 clearly don't see it that way.
Now a Georgian journalist, one Basalaia, is held there, for some reason. A UN person has visited him. Saakashvili has said something like 'we will go in there and get him out'. Needless to say, the Abkhaz folk did not appreciate this gentle statement, so now they are holding on to him even hard.
If only people could react less emotionally, and sit down and think. But sometimes Misha is not good at 'not emotional'. As some others are not, either.....
It was one of his election platforms to say that we (including the IDPs) would be returning there, with him in front. Insults have been traded for years over this. I would say, let it go, but the IDPs who lost property there after the events of about 1994 clearly don't see it that way.
Now a Georgian journalist, one Basalaia, is held there, for some reason. A UN person has visited him. Saakashvili has said something like 'we will go in there and get him out'. Needless to say, the Abkhaz folk did not appreciate this gentle statement, so now they are holding on to him even hard.
If only people could react less emotionally, and sit down and think. But sometimes Misha is not good at 'not emotional'. As some others are not, either.....
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