In Georgia, 1937 became a symbol of repression, political persecution, and lives destroyed by a system that treated dissent as a crime.
Today, a 72-year-old pediatrician was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Journalists, activists, artists, and citizens continue to face prosecution and imprisonment.
Looking at these events, many
Georgians cannot help but see echoes of a past we hoped would never return.
Okay, so, the struggle for Georgia isn’t over yet, but I am nevertheless considering writing a book on resistance, freedom fight, personal betrayals, quest for love, emerging stronger, etc. (I suppose the book would lean a bit towards “girl stuff” too, especially since I’m told my occasional comic reliefs are appreciated).
The target audience should be global and not only niche to Georgia. This way I’d hope more could relate, have food for thought, AND indirectly also get acquainted with Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, the common struggle…
After all, a book that inspired me to read more literature was about the struggle in Iran - Shirin Ebadi’s The Golden Cage: Three Brothers, Three Choices, One Destiny.
And hopefully we are victorious by the time I’m finished drafting it! :)
I’ll take any and all advice on English publishers and just where to even begin. I plan on reaching out early in January.
Thank you! Your constant support as a community and quite a big interest in my old post on a book actually played a huge role in convincing me to pursue the thought. ❤️
The night the air turned poisonous.
The chemical that hit us was the same type first used in World War I - something the world abandoned a century ago.
But my own government brought it back against peaceful protesters.
Bromobenzyl cyanide (Camite)
#GeorgiaProtests #SanctionIvanishvili
Being allowed to stand on the street for a protest doesn’t automatically mean democracy.
When a government ignores citizens for a year, refuses dialogue, detains peaceful protesters including pensioners and uses the police and courts to intimidate people, that is not democracy.
Democracy isn’t measured by the existence of protests, but by the government’s respect for the people protesting
Aza, a 71-year-old refugee from Gagra, was detained today by the Georgian Dream regime.
During the war, when the corpses of Georgian soldiers were left unburied and those who tried to bury them were being killed Aza found the courage to bury them herself.
Today, this same woman was arrested for peacefully protesting for her country’s freedom.