Georgië: Rusland plant militaire coup

Gestart door Lex, 05/05/2009 | 12:44 uur

Lex

Georgian troop rebellion 'over'

A mutiny at a military base near Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, is over, the Georgian interior minister says.
Vano Merabishvili said the commander of the Mukhrovani base where a tank battalion mutined had been arrested and others were being questioned.
Tbilisi said earlier it was part of a Russia-linked coup attempt to kill President Mikhail Saakashvili.
Russia's envoy to Nato described the charges as "mad". The trouble comes a day before Nato exercises in Georgia.
Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev has condemned Nato for planning military exercises in a country "where there was just a war".
Georgia and Russia have poisonous relations, and fought a war over Georgia's breakaway territory of South Ossetia last August.
In a separate development, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he would not attend a planned meeting of the Nato-Russia Council later this month following the alliance's expulsion of two Russian diplomats last week.
They were expelled reportedly in retaliation for a spy scandal involving an Estonian official.

'Plotter at large'
The mutiny at the Mukhrovani base, some 30km (20 miles) from Tbilisi, erupted on Tuesday morning, when soldiers began disobeying orders, Georgian officials said.
The soldiers were aiming at "disrupting Nato exercises and overturning the authorities militarily", Georgian Defence Minister David Sikharulidze told Georgian television.
It was not immediately known how many soldiers took part in the mutiny.
The mutiny broke out as the government announced it had disrupted a coup plot.
The interior ministry told the BBC that the plotters wanted to destabilise Georgia and assassinate President Saakashvili.
Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili said one of the suspected coup leaders - former special forces commander Georgy Gvaladze - was arrested. But the alleged co-plotter - former chief of special forces Koba Otanadze - was still at large.
The spokesman said the government had been aware of the plot for two months.
The rebellion appeared to be "co-ordinated with Russia", the interior ministry said.
But Dmitry Rogozin, Moscow's ambassador at military alliance, said the mutiny in Georgia was the result of "crazy politics of President Saakashvili".
In a separate development, opposition protests are continuing in Tbilisi.
The demonstrators say they plan to block three main roads into the capital later on Tuesday.

Story from BBC NEWS: Published: 2009/05/05 11:45:44 GMT

noorman

Zorgwekkend - prowesterse krachten in Georgië worden op alle fronten (letterlijk én figuurlijk) tegengewerkt door de Russen. De EU moet nogmaals onderstrepen dat Georgië een soeverein land is waar buitenlandse inmenging not done is. Hoog tijd om dat de Russen 'in te peperen'. Want als we dít geval toestaan dan valt voor Oekraïne hetzelfde lot ten deel...

"Officials did not have "direct evidence" pointing to outside involvement in the attempted rebellion, Utiashvili said."
bron: CNN

Valt te betwijfelen lijkt mij - indirect genoeg aanwijzingen de afgelopen weken van op handen zijnde coup - Russen zouden geen middel schuwen om de provocatie van de NATO te vermijden!
"Where no counsel is, the people fall, but in the multitude of counselors there is safety" - Proverbs 11 verse 14

-KMA -back as soon as possible-

Lex

Tanks op weg naar legerbasis Georgië

TBILISI - 
Ongeveer dertig tanks en pantservoertuigen zijn dinsdag volgens getuigen onderweg van de Georgische hoofdstad Tbilisi naar een nabijgelegen militaire basis. Op de legerbasis zou volgens de Georgische autoriteiten een militaire coup voorbereid worden.

Politieagenten houden journalisten tegen op de hoofdweg richting legerbasis Moechrovani.

ANP | Gepubliceerd op 05 mei 2009, 12:31

Lex

Georgië: Rusland plant militaire coup

TBILISI - 
Georgië heeft Rusland er dinsdag van beschuldigd een militaire coup te plannen in de voormalige Sovjetstaat in de Kaukasus. Ook zou Rusland de NAVO-oefeningen die vanaf woensdag een maand lang plaatsvinden in het land, willen verstoren.

Op de militaire basis Moechrovani, die net buiten Tbilisi ligt, zou een aantal commandanten zijn ontslagen en werden militairen in barakken opgesloten. Een persoon is gearresteerd, aldus het Georgische ministerie van Defensie.
Degenen die de militaire staatsgreep planden, zouden gefinancierd worden door Rusland. Volgens het Kremlin wil de NAVO met de oefeningen haar spierballen laten zien.

ANP | Gepubliceerd op 05 mei 2009, 12:11