Tbilisi's 'Revolution of Roses' Mentored by Serbian Activists (washingtonpost.com): "The Georgian opposition movement modeled its campaign on the popular uprising that deposed Yugoslavia's president, Slobodan Milosevic, in October 2000 and even adopted its slogan. Opposition leaders traveled to Belgrade for advice and brought their Serbian counterparts to Tbilisi. Thousands of Georgians were trained in the techniques honed in Belgrade. And the opposition persuaded Georgia's independent television network to air a documentary on the Serbian uprising not once but twice in the last 10 days.
'Most important was the film,' said Ivane Merabishvili, general secretary of the National Movement party that led the revolt. 'All the demonstrators knew the tactics of the revolution in Belgrade by heart because they showed . . . the film on their revolution. Everyone knew what to do. This was a copy of that revolution, only louder.' "

I'd like to see this movie. Think we'll need to know how in Nov. 2004?
- posted by geoff @ #