{"id":432741,"date":"2010-03-14T08:42:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T12:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/?p=36758"},"modified":"2010-03-14T08:42:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T12:42:46","slug":"outrage-in-georgia-over-fake-russian-invasion-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/432741","title":{"rendered":"Outrage in Georgia Over Fake Russian Invasion Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bangkok Post<\/a>
\nSunday, March<\/a> 14, 2010<\/p>\n

The Georgian opposition on Sunday denounced a mock television report of a Russian invasion as government<\/a>-sponsored propaganda aimed at smearing President Mikheil Saakashvili\u2019s critics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis government<\/a>\u2019s treatment of its own people is outrageous. I am sure that every second of this programme was agreed with Saakashvili. Many people suffered psychological trauma,\u201d opposition leader Nino Burjanadze told AFP.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery word about me was malicious slander and I will sue both Imedi television and the authorities,\u201d said Burjanadze, who heads the Democratic Movement-United Georgia party.<\/p>\n

The report, aired Saturday night on privately owned Imedi television, sparked brief panic in ex-Soviet Georgia as viewers feared a repeat of the August 2008 war<\/a> that saw Russian troops pour into Georgia and bomb targets across the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Showing footage from the war<\/a>, the report said Russian tanks were headed for the capital Tbilisi and that Saakashvili had been killed.<\/p>\n

A brief notice before the report said it was a \u201csimulation\u201d of possible events but the report itself appeared genuine and carried no warning it was a fake.<\/p>\n

Full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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