TBILISI. Sept 29 (Interfax-AVN) - Militias formed in the past few years in the Kodori gorge, which is a buffer zone between Georgia and its breakaway Abkhazia region, and other parts of Georgia, have railed at a proposal by a senior parliamentarian to disband them.
"Guarding border regions should be the job of border guards and specially trained troops and not militias," Givi Targamadze, head of the parliamentary defense and security committee, told reporters at the weekend.
The office of the Georgian president's commissioner for the Kodori gorge on Tuesday accused Targamadze of "treachery."
"It is the militias and not troops that have been able to protect the only region in Abkhazia, the Kodori gorge, that is under Georgian jurisdiction. And the statements about the disbandment of the Monadire (Hunter) militia battalion mean treachery," the office said in a statement said.
The Georgian Defense Ministry told Interfax it had not yet been decided to disband any of the three militia battalions and that it considered forming militias on the basis of the territorial principle the wrong idea.