Droa, Strategy Agmashenebeli, Girchi - More Freedom release joint statement on Hague decision on 2008 war case of Georgia
By Liza Mchedlidze
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Political parties Droa, Strategy Agmashenebeli and Girchi - More Freedom responded to the Hague Court's decision and released a joint statement. Parties said that now the international legal situation regarding the August war has fundamentally changed.
The leaders of the parties believe that now there is a need for concrete activity and a demand for compensation for the damages to the displaced persons.
"We are interested in whether the Georgian law enforcement agencies initiated the same type of criminal case against the three people named by the Hague prosecutor as defendants in the war actions against Georgia.
Second - is there any specific action plan in the international arena, because the legal bases are completely changing, Georgia has the right to demand reparation or compensation for the IDPs who were directly harmed in 2008. The international legal situation regarding the 2008 war has fundamentally changed, and concrete activity is now very important.
Here, I would like to appeal to different types of organizations, non-governmental and legal companies, that let's unite our efforts and where the 'Georgian Dream' does not protect the interests of our country, let's prepare the legal grounds for reparation, not only from 2008 but also from the 90s," 'Strategy Aghmashenebeli' leader Giorgi Vashadze said.
The Droa leader Elene Khoshtaria said that it has been proven that Georgia has no guilt in the "episode of peacekeepers and Tskhinvali" which, according to her, means that the version of the Start of the war, which Russia and the Georgian Dream gave Georgians, has simply been 'shattered'.
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, announced on December 16 that the stage of the investigation regarding the crimes committed by the Russian Federation in the 2008 Russia-Georgia war has been completed.
The Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for 3 people for crimes committed in the August 2008 war.
