The “Why?” Public Movement

The Why? Public Movement says they don’t want answers to the provocative questions they’ve been posting to President Mikael Saakashvili around Tbilisi city streets for the past three months.

“Why war? Why do police do terrorism act to people? Why people are being killing in the streets? Why court is under pressure of the government? Why did Saakashvili bring masseuse during the war with budget money?” and thousands of “Why?” questions were reason of creating this Movement. They give these questions to Mikael Saakashvili, President of Georgia and his political team.

“These aren’t questions, these are verdicts,” said Irakli Kordzaia, one of the leaders of “Why?”

The activities of “Why?” Public movement were started by seven activists secretly. The organization began to spread banners, stickers in the street at nights. But three weeks ago they held press-conference in an underground in Freedom Square and began to open activity. They thinks that this action means to go out from darkness to freedom. The movement has 160 members from Tbilisi and 20 from Batumi. Now they are working to draw in more people from whole Georgia. They have 15 coordinators which are responsible to draw in the movement.

According to Kzodzia, movement is financed by Georgian businessmen who are unhappy with the Georgian government. Kzodzia said that they will remain anonymous unless Saakashvili’s resigns.

The activists of “Why” will carry out flowers and candles to the Freedom Square at 5 in the morning to remember memory of the April 9 tragedy, happened in 1989 by Soveit Army.

At 12 am they will join to protestors.

Kordzaia said, they did not know in which direction they will join. “We will be there where we are needed. We will be in the epicenter of the protest,” he said.