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Tue 10 Oct 2008Georgian leader faces calls for resignation as critics blame him for 'disastrous' attack
GEORGIA:GEORGIA'S OPPOSITION has called for an independent investigation into the origins of the war with Russia in August, amid growing discontent inside the country with President Mikheil Saakashvili and demands that he resign.
The country's opposition parties refrained from criticising Mr Saakashvili during the conflict, but two months on, with Russian troops due to pull out this week from the so-called buffer zones next to the breakaway republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, they are demanding an urgent debate on the origins of the conflict.
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