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| | Letter to President Shevardnadze re: Ministerial Appointments and Religious Violence (Human Rights Watch Press release, ... |
 | | On September 28, Mkalavishvili and a large group of his supporters, together with members of the Jvari (Cross) organization, armed with clubs and stones, reportedly set up their own roadblock near a police checkpoint on the highway south from Tbilisi to Marneuli, intending to prevent Jehovah's Witnesses from attending their planned annual congress in Marneuli. |
 | | An hour later, around seventy Mkalavishvili supporters and Jvari members raided the site of the planned congress in Marneuli, entering and damaging a private home, beating congregants, looting and ransacking the site, and burning religious literature. |
 | | In yet a third attack that week, on September 30, approximately fourteen men from the Jvari organization raided a Jehovah's Witnesses prayer meeting in Rustavi. |
| www.hrw.org /press/2001/11/georgia1109-ltr.htm (1784 words) |
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