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Violent Anti-Minority Crusade In Georgia


(September 26, 2001)

UNFROCKED GEORGIAN PRIEST ANNOUNCES NEW CRUSADE AGAINST NON- ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS. Father Basil Mzekalashvili, whose followers have systematically assaulted Jehovah's Witnesses in Tbilisi and other Georgian towns, on 24 September staged a march in Tbilisi that was intended to mark the beginning of a new campaign against all non- Orthodox religious groups in Georgia, Caucasus Press reported. Mzekalashvili and his followers forcibly broke up a meeting of evangelists in Tbilisi on 23 September, according to "Rezonansi." LF

Source: Radio Free Europe
September 25, 2001


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