Saakashvili On the Mass Hunger Strike
By The Messenger Staff
Thursday, December 23
Former President Mikheil Saakashvili calls on the hunger strikers to take mineral supplements. In addition, he says, there are other protests in the country.
“I would like to remind you that as a result of massive famines, Mahatma Gandhi gained independence from India, while Mandela and his comrades overthrew apartheid.
My friend Anatoly Sharansky has been on hunger strike for more than a year in total, and his topic has been at the forefront of Reagan and Gorbachev meetings. Sharansky was a comrade-in-arms of Merab Kostava, who also starved for a long time and many times.
Anatoly then went to Israel, where he became a minister and published a book on democracy, one of President George W. Bush's favorite books, which was one of the sources of Bush's inspiration for standing by the Rose Revolution and constantly talking about Georgia.
The widespread mass movement of the national movement in Georgia was started by the mass hunger strike of 1988. Starvation is not a safe process. The famous Georgian dissident Nazi Shamanauri, who died in a psychiatric prison as a result of a long hunger strike, was killed. Famous Ukrainian poet and dissident Anatoly Marchenko died of starvation in the Donetsk colony.
Therefore, I urge my comrades to be constantly under medical supervision to take mineral supplements regularly. It was with the help of these mineral supplements, which does not violate the protocol of the famine, that the famous Ukrainian director Anatoly Sentsov, who was captured, endured 120 days of starvation in Russian prisons.
Hopefully, we will not need so much time, because in addition to the hunger strike, other protests are taking place in the country against the background of the complete collapse of the government and such oppression and ridicule of the people. Because of the great injustice that affects every citizen on a daily basis,” Saakashvili wrote.
On December 21, party chairman Nika Melia said that a mass hunger strike would begin demanding the release of Mikheil Saakashvili.
Tents were set up at the UNM headquarters at night. Part of the party leaders are starving along with activists and citizens.
