Kmara!

Kmara! (Georgian კმარა! , dt Enough! ) is a Georgian student and youth organization. She organized a political campaign against the government of Eduard Shevardnadze and played a key role in the Rose Revolution in Georgia in 2003.

Precursor of Kmara! was the Georgian student movement, a political organization students who had organized mass demonstrations in 2001 for the preservation of the freedom of the press in Georgia in October and November.

Kmara! was founded in April 2003. It was based on the model of the Serbian youth movement Otpor! Who had contributed in 2000 to replace the regime of Slobodan Milošević. Georgian opposition activists were flown to Belgrade in February 2003 and had met with Otpor! Representatives. Soon after Otpor met! Activists in Tbilisi and trained around 800 Georgian students in three -day courses in the Freedom Institute in the organization of non-violent political change.

The government Shevardnadze Realizing the danger to the own power and tried Kmara! intimidate. In October 2003, demonstration of Kmara! forcibly dissolved in Tbilisi and Poti by the police. Students who distributed Kmara! Leaflets were beaten by members of the pro-government electoral alliance, ravaged the Kmara office in Tbilisi during a robbery.

During the Velvet Revolution in Georgia Kmara was! the main organizer of the street protest. Its members ensured that the protests would not fall asleep in fatigue phases.

Individual Kmara! Activists took over after the change of power in Georgia important political functions. They include the current mayor of Tbilisi Giorgi Ugulava and influential MPs Giga Bokeria, the 2003 on the inspirers of Kmara! counted.

Kmara was also involved in the street protests for the replacement of Aslan Abashidze adjarian ruler in spring 2004 and in the preparation of the Orange Revolution in the autumn of the same year in Kiev. In September 2005, two Kmara members were temporarily detained by police in Minsk, because they had been involved in organizing protests against the Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko.