Georgia Commemorates Victims of April 9 Massacre

Georgia marks the 37th anniversary of the April 9, 1989, massacre of pro-independence demonstrators on Tbilisi’s Rustaveli Avenue by the Soviet army, which killed 21 people, most of them women, and injured hundreds with poison gas and spades. Georgia also marks the 35th anniversary of the restoration of independence on April 9, 1991, two years …

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