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Mikheil Saakashvili has refused to apologise for his orders that riot police should attack peaceful demonstrators and that special forces should seize and smash up the Imedi TV station on 7 November 2007.

In fact he claimed that the sending in armed troops to take a televsion station off air was a normal method of policing used elsewhere in the world, reports InterPressNews.

As the videos here shows there was nothing normal about the police that day - they wore masks, carried clubs and attacked a peaceful demonstration before going on to storm a TV station because it reported their actions.

Saakashvili repeated his claim that a "foreign power" was involved in the events of that day. Of course no credible evidence has ever been offered to support this excuse for his behaviour and he has never found a single western government prepared to back him on it.

Indeed, in the west, Saakashvili's supporters - such as the Georgian Deputy Prime Minister Baramidze - have even claimed that the president had apologised for the attacks on the demonstrators and Imedi - when clearly he has done the very opposite (hear the deputy PM make the claim).