Mikheil Saakashvili: Three main words have been “dirtied” for us: hope, peace and dream; these words will probably become hateful to generations – in 2008, it turns out, we should have surrendered to the enemy and would have been, like Chechnya, raped a million times

Know that the Constitutional Court is being held in Batumi, and from Batumi will come that wave which will sweep away this regime in Tbilisi, because the most combat-ready people are there – if these people remain, I think it is clear what will happen in this country. This country will not only reach isolation, but complete devastation. Can you not see that the country is on fire? – this was stated by Georgia’s third president, Mikheil Saakashvili, while delivering a speech at a hearing on the 7 November case at the Tbilisi City Court.

According to him, the topics that the Constitutional Court is examining are astonishing to him.

“Know that the Constitutional Court is being held in Batumi, and from Batumi will come that wave which will sweep away this regime in Tbilisi, because the most combat-ready people are there. Batumi understood best of all what well-being, freedom and development were. I place the greatest hope in the people of Batumi. So when we talk about what is happening in Georgia – this is a catastrophe. Entire villages are emptied. In most of Georgia’s villages you cannot buy milk; there are no more milking cows left. These people have come to the city, work as taxi drivers, live in rented housing and are preparing to leave for Warsaw, Italy and America.

Just now on the way I was reading about the Constitutional Court, which is sitting in Aslan’s residence and has clearly had Aslan’s water poured over it. What this Constitutional Court is examining leaves me astonished. The 2003 Rose Revolution is declared an illegal coup d’état ordered by a foreign country. First of all, ordered by which foreign country? America was begging us at the time to accept the results of the falsified elections. The Rose Revolution was the event that brought Georgia real state institutions, real state development and made Georgia the world’s number-one reformer. We are a country of great ideas. We were the world’s first reformers, a beacon of democracy for the world, a country that astonished the President of the United States. All of this success and development, which, by the way, returned Georgia to the constitutional space. Adjara, which was controlled by the Russian army and Aslan Abashidze. The development of today’s Batumi would have been nothing without the Rose Revolution.

If the Rose Revolution is illegality, then the presence of Adjara and Batumi as Georgian territories is also illegality.

The next accusation – the sale of the Ergneti market, which, it turns out, was illegality and a crime. If we had not done that, Georgia’s economy would not have existed; we would not have been able to raise pensions and salaries, we would not have been able to change the electricity supply. That means creating Georgia’s economy was a crime. It turns out that our soldiers who died at Ergneti were not heroes but accomplices in a crime.

It turns out that in 2006, when I liquidated the Russian spy network – and you all know what a great threat it represented – if we had not done what we did, Georgia would have had no security at all. The leader of that network blew up the Gori police building at that time and killed policemen; he was preparing sabotage. We caught these people and thereby, it turns out, we provoked Russia.

Finally, of course, the 2008 war, which is declared a crime provoked by us. They want to annul the heroism of Anzukhelidze, the heroes of Shindisi and others. This heroic self-defense of ours has been declared anti-state; it turns out we should have surrendered to the enemy and would have been, like Chechnya, already raped a million times.

I want to tell you that if these people remain, I think it is clear what will happen in this country. This country will not only reach isolation, but complete devastation. Can you not see that the country is on fire? Three main words have been ‘dirtied’ for us – hope, peace and dream; these words will probably become hateful to generations,” Mikheil Saakashvili stated.

Georgia’s third president also spoke about the case of Roin Shavadze and stated that “he was a traitor, an employee of a Georgian structure.”

“I often hear in Batumi, while the process is ongoing, that the murder of Roin Shavadze was not investigated. Do you know who Roin Shavadze was? He was a traitor, an employee of a Georgian structure who in 2008 was passing to Russian intelligence the deployment of our troops, coordinates and places to bomb. If he had been convicted, in 2012 they would definitely have released him as a political prisoner,” Mikheil Saakashvili stated.