TBILISI. Oct 11 (Interfax-AVN) - President Mikheil Saakashvili "is forming Georgian oprichnina (anti-dissident units in Tsarist Russia - Interfax) and calling them reservists," opposition Labor Party leader Shalva Natelashvili told a Monday news conference.
"Members of the ruling party National Movement-Democrats are signing up as reservists to get some position. Normal people do not wish to sign up for the armed units of Saakashvili," he said.
The main goal "of the so-called reservists is to fight against the opposition and any kinds of different thinking in Georgia," Natelashvili said. "We have already seen what the Mkhedrioni paramilitary organization was doing."
Natelashvili said he has appealed to foreign leaders and international organizations to "stop any relations with the incumbent Georgian administration and help a new democratic election in Georgia."
On Sunday, Saakashvili visited field camps where more than 1,000 reservists have been training for over a month.