SUKHUMI. July 8 (Interfax-AVN) - Georgian guerillas operating in Abkhazia demand financial aid from locals, a source in the headquarters of the collective peacekeeping forces in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone told Interfax-Military News Agency on Monday.
The source said that leaflets demanding RUB2,000 (USD61.41) from every family are currently being distributed in the Gali district of Georgia.
Guerillas say that in case the locals refuse to provide the money, they will be killed.
Head of the Abkhazian Security Service Zurab Agumava said on Monday that two terrorist attacks were staged in the locality of Tsarcha in the Gali district. Explosive devices went off near a bus stop and outside the building of the local administration.
Notes in Georgian accusing cooperation between local and Abkhazian authorities were found at the site of the terrorist acts; the papers also called for rendering financial aid to the so-called liberation movement, Agumava added.
In accordance with data provided by Abkhazian special services, the Forest Brothers terrorist group is responsible for staging the terrorist acts and distribution of propaganda leaflets.
At the same time the group's leader David Shengelia categorically denies the involvement of Georgian guerillas in money demands from Abkhazian people.
"We have no relations neither to these nor to similar leaflets that recently appeared in the Tkvarcheli district of Abkhazia, Shengelia told Interfax-Military News Agency on the phone.
"The authorship here belongs either to bandits or provocateurs who wish to disgrace the Georgian liberation movement. The guerillas currently take not active measures following the moratorium," Shengelia said.
"But if on July 31 the UN Security Council makes an inarticulate decision on Abkhazia without real motions we will step up combating Abkhazian separatists. During the first stage we can provide up to 5,000 guerillas for combating separatists which will finally cause the Abkhazian party to restore the territorial unity of Georgia," Shengelia added.