It took us 12 years to thoroughly find out everything and give a political assessment to the tragedy of 2008. Today, without any evasion, we are talking about the "National Movement" that started the war, because we have a lot of evidence of the worst crime committed by them, - about this the honorary chairman of "Georgian Dream", , Bidzina Ivanishvili said during a speech at the regional event of the "Georgian Dream" election campaign in Gori.

In his speech at the event held in Shida Kartli, the honorary chairman of "Georgian Dream" Bidzina Ivanishvili talks about the events of the August 2008 war and quotes his own words from the 2012 speech.

According to his own statement, all this was a well-planned provocation from the outside against the Georgian and Ossetian people, the purpose of which was to split unity, destroy relations and exist in conditions of endless, artificial confrontation

"In 2012, when I was preparing with you to free Georgia from the criminal regime, in front of you, I spoke at length in this city about the war provoked by Saakashvili's criminal regime, and I would like to recall a small excerpt from my speech 12 years ago. On July 15, 2012, I told you the following:

"If we want this wound to close, we must first close it here today. Together we will find strength and be able to forgive. Not only will we be able to forgive, but we will also have the strength to confess our guilt and repent. We apologize once again to the Georgian mothers, we are the people who created "Tiger and Mokmi", we will express our condolences to the mothers of Os, we will help them find their missing children, we will conduct a fair investigation, we will correct what can still be corrected. In the future as well, we will only congratulate the Georgian-Ossetian family, which has always been a natural and common story here in this area. We, Georgians and Ossetians, should be able to restore the relationship together, because so many things connect us and bring us closer to each other. We will find access to our sisters and brothers, Ossetians. We will definitely restore relations with them."

12 years have passed since these words were uttered before you. It was this time that we needed in order to thoroughly investigate everything step by step and give a political assessment of the 2008 tragedy. Today, we speak loudly, without any evasion, about the "National Movement" that started the war, because we have a lot of evidence of the worst crime committed by them. We were well aware that all this was a well-planned provocation from the outside against the Georgian and Ossetian people, the purpose of which was to split our unity, destroy relations and exist in conditions of endless, artificial confrontation. Existence and not coexistence, because the enemies of our country aimed to create this situation, which, unfortunately, was successfully carried out by a Georgian passport-less agency, and a stateless agency with intelligence and spirit," Ivanishvili said.