Georgia: Shevardnadze Facing Milosevic's Fate? As the opposition moves its campaign out of the capital, images of Romania 1989 and Yugoslavia 2000 stalk Georgia’s president.
TBILISI, Georgia--At 11 a.m. on a Monday, many Georgians would normally tune in to hear President Eduard Shevardnadze hold his traditional Monday radio interview. But this time, many could not hear him, as thousands of taxi drivers in the capital, Tbilisi, stopped their cars for ten minutes at 11 a.m., and blew their horns in support of protests against Shevardnadze.
This effectively marked the start of the second stage of a protest campaign calling for the president’s resignation, after elections on 2 November were marred by what some international observers called “spectacular” irregularities.
“This is to make [the government] hear that we, people, do not want them,” said Manana, a driver on Tbilisi’s central Rustaveli Avenue, as she joined in the taxi-drivers’ protests.
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