This is the "democratically-elected" government of Georgia: "Rubber bullets were fired indiscriminately, and also directly at fleeing demonstrators. Heavily armed police and security personnel stormed a private television station, Imedi, threatening and ejecting the staff as well as damaging and destroying much of the station’s equipment, forcing the station off the air. While the Georgian government claimed that it was responding to threats of massive public disorder and a coup d’etat, it has not provided evidence to support these allegations; moreover such allegations cannot justify the level of force used."