1993. The death of Zviad Gamsakhurdia

20 years ago, on December 31, 1993, in the village of Dzveli-Hibul in the mountainous region, Samegrelo was found dead Zviad Gamsakhurdiya, the first president of Georgia, a former participant in the Soviet dissident movement. There he was hiding from the detachments of Mhedrioni, who supported Eduard Shevardnadze. According to the official version, based on the testimony of the victim’s widow, he shot himself in his head with a pistol. However, the presence of a bullet hole in the back of the head gave rise to a murder version. The murder organization was suspected of both Shevardnadze, who replaced Gamsahurdia as the presidential as a result of the coup and Russian intelligence services.

In April 2007, the remains of Gamsakhurdia were reburied in the pantheon of writers and public figures in Tbilisi. In 2009, the Georgian prosecutor's office said that she had no evidence of suicide or murder of Gamsakhurdiya. In January 2011, the Provisional Parliamentary Commission on the study of the circumstances of the death of the first president of the country concluded that Zviad Gamsakhurdia was killed. His son Konstantin, the chairman of the commission, said that the data obtained during a multi -month investigation “allow the only conclusion that the president became the victim of the murder, and not suicide, as it was still thought.” However, no evidence of the murder, as well as information about who committed it, was not published.