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Zviad Konstantines dze Gamsakhurdia was a Georgian politician, human rights activist, dissident, professor of English language studies and American literature at Tbilisi State University, and writer who became the first democratically elected President of Georgia in May 1991.
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politics · First President of Georgia (1991–92) · politician · translator · literary historian · philologist · literary critic · writer · also Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Zviad Gamsakhourdia, Zviad Konstantines dze Gamsakhurdia, Gamsakhurdia
Born 31 March 1939 · Died 31 December 1993 · Q218435
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“the USSR law on referendum violates the sovereignty of the Republic of Georgia, because with this law the destiny of Georgia would be decided not by its citizens, but by citizens of all union republics in the Soviet Union”
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“s reforms were real only if Gorbachev amended the USSR Law on Secession and made it more”
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“to preserve the neocolonialism and the imperial structures”
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The plenary room of the Parliament of Georgia was named after Zviad Gamsakhurdia, with Irakli Kobakhidze, chairman of Parliament, describing Gamsakhurdia as "the symbol of our statehood"
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The Georgian president Giorgi Margvelashvili announced a scholarship dedicated to Zviad Gamsakhurdia, awarded to an outstanding student studying historic literature
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Gamsakhurdia was posthumously awarded the title and Order of National Hero of Georgia by President Mikheil Saakashvili
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BBC News reported that some of Gamsakhurdia's friends believed he committed suicide, "although his widow insists that he was murdered
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– to bury President Gamsakhurdia on his native soil
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Fugitive former Georgian intelligence chief Igor Giorgadze accused Georgian special services of murdering Gamsakhurdia
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Died 1993-12-31.
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“The Georgian Republic aspires to its worthy place in the world's community of states; it affirms and equally guarantees, as envisioned by international law, all the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, of nations, ethnic, religious, and linguistic groups as demanded by the rules of the United Nations...”
Career landmark: President of Georgia (1991–1992).
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With 10,000 soldiers of the National Guard taking their oath of service in front of President Zviad Gamsakhurdia at Boris Paichadze Stadium
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Career landmark: Chairperson of the Parliament of Georgia (1990–1991).
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Was suppressed by the Soviet Army, with Gamsakhurdia being arrested
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Violent unrest broke out between the Georgian independence-minded population of the region and Ossetians loyal to the Soviet Union in South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast
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Gamsakhurdia became one of the founders of the Society of Saint Ilia the Righteous (SSIR), a religious-political organization which became the basis for his own political movement
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As Merab Kostava and other dissidents were released from prison, the dissident movement, which had been gaining steam, was strengthened by new leadership
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Was released after publicly denouncing his dissident activism
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Gamsakhurdia was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
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Established the Georgian branch of the Helsinki Rights Watch Group
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Zviad Gamsakhurdia became a member of the Writers' Union of Georgia, but later was expelled in 1977 for his anti-Soviet dissident activity
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For distributing anti-communist literature and was confined to a mental hospital in Tbilisi for six months, although his familial status protected him from further sanctions
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Participated with his fellow students, including future ally Merab Kostava, in the demonstrations in Tbilisi against de-Stalinization
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Born 1939-03-31.
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The Georgian Republic aspires to its worthy place in the world's community of states; it affirms and equally guarantees, as envisioned by international law, all the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, of nations, ethnic, religious, and linguistic groups as demanded by the rules of the United Nations...
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