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Large weapons collection discovered in Tbilisi

By | April 30th, 2014|Categories: News|Tags: |

Military type weapons including anti-tank missiles were voluntarily handed over to the police by a 44 year old Georgian man. (Police.ge.) TBILISI, DFWatch–A Georgian citizen has voluntarily handed over a large collection of military type weapons to the police department in Tbilisi. The impressive weapons collection included an RPG-26 anti-tank grenade launcher, four prefabricated PG-9 […]

Saakashvili: I gave the order to create weapons cache

By | June 24th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: |

President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili says he ordered the establishment of underground weapons caches all over the country. He said, in case of renewed aggression, Georgia wouldn’t be ‘unprotected as it was in 2008.’ “There is nothing new for me in that […]

More surveillance material found in western Georgia

By | June 22nd, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: |

Some of the tapes found in an underground weapons cache in Samegrelo last week. (Police.ge.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The Interior Ministry in Georgia Friday announced the discovery of more weapons in an underground cache in the western Samegrelo region. The latest find adds four more barrels to a cache discovered last week containing weapons, drugs and surveillance […]

Torture videos will be shown in closed screening

By | June 20th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: |

The tapes were found along with weapons, explosives and drugs inside these plastic barrels. (Police.ge.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The Interior Ministry in Georgia Thursday will hold a screening for media leaders of newly discovered videos of torture and rape, but filming will not be allowed. A few dozen people will be shown the tapes which were discovered in a buried weapons cache […]

Georgia torture videos not published, nine detained

By | June 19th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: , |

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Interior Ministry in Georgia changed its mind about publishing videos showing torture of prisoners, but said nine persons have been detained regarding the discovery of the weapons cache where the videos were found. Minister of Internal Affairs […]

Weapons cache found in western Georgia

By | June 17th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: |

Photo released by Georgian Interior Ministry. (Police.ge.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The Interior Ministry in Georgia has discovered an underground cache in the Samegrelo region, which borders with breakaway Abkhazia. The cache contained ammunition, explosives and explosive devices, grenades, automatic rifles and other weapons. […]

Large ammunition depot found in south Georgia

By | December 17th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian police have seized a large amount of ammunition in an abandoned house in a town in the south of the country. According to Interior Ministry, the ammunition was hidden at an abandoned airport dormitory house in the town Akhalkalaki. […]

Weapons cache discovered in Tbilisi

By | December 4th, 2012|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — Military Police in Georgia have seized about a hundred weapons of different types at an apartment in Tbilisi. Vako Avaliani, Advisor to the Defense Minister, on Monday said the weapons were not registered. The ministry learned about the location […]