ONE GEORGIAN PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE SHOT AT, A SECOND ABDUCTED AND BEATEN
By empty (10/29/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Zviad Chokheli, a member of the opposition New Rightists who is running in the 2 November Georgian parliamentary elections in a single-mandate constituency, was shot at two times late on 29 October, surviving only thanks to a bulletproof vest, Georgian media reported. His car was destroyed by a bomb 30 minutes later, but Chokheli was not in the vehicle at the time. Also late on 29 October, Revival Union candidate Temur Goksadze was pulled from his car, beaten, and thrown into a river.Visit also
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