"I am protesting against everything that is currently taking place in Georgia," Manana Archvadze-Gamsakhurdia said. "In line with the Georgian government's resolutions of the early 1990s it is prohibited to put state property up for sale. Today's illegal government, just like the illegal government of [Eduard] Shevardnadze continues to squander property, which belongs to the people. I protest against this."
Georgia's former president Zviad Gamsakhurdia, a persecuted human rights advocate in Soviet times, died in mysterious circumstances in 1993, aged 54, two years after being ousted and replaced by Eduard Shevardnadze and following a civil war.
The municipal authorities ruled earlier to start construction of a new residential apartment block near the house of the Gamsakhurdia family, where author of classic Georgian literature, and father of the first president Konstantin Gamsakhurdia is buried.
"How could I sit and watch silently while bulldozers destroy the grave of Konstantin Gamsakhurdia, who is buried in the family house in Tbilisi," she said. "I will remain at city hall and continue with the hunger strike until all this lawlessness is stopped."
She added that so far none of the city hall representatives have spoken to her.
