The Mkhedrioni () was a paramilitary group in the Republic of Georgia created in 1989 by Jaba Ioseliani, known for its high-profile involvement in the Georgian Civil War and the War in Abkhazia. In 1995, the Mkhedrioni was outlawed and refused registration after being reconstituted as the Union of Patriots political party. Mkhedrioni forces were notorious for criminal activities such as banditry. With the high-ranking Mkhedrioni leaders such as Jaba Ioseliani being accused of the involvement in the assassination attempt of Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze in 1995, the authorities cracked
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The Mkhedrioni () was a paramilitary group in the Republic of Georgia created in 1989 by Jaba Ioseliani, known for its high-profile involvement in the Georgian Civil War and the War in Abkhazia. In 1995, the Mkhedrioni was outlawed and refused registration after being reconstituted as the Union of Patriots political party. Mkhedrioni forces were notorious for criminal activities such as banditry. With the high-ranking Mkhedrioni leaders such as Jaba Ioseliani being accused of the involvement in the assassination attempt of Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze in 1995, the authorities cracked down on Mkhedrioni, leading to the eventual vanishing of the group's influence and presence in the country.
==Background== Founded in 1989 by Jaba Ioseliani, the Mkhedrioni presented itself as the heir to historic Georgian guerrilla groups who fought Iranian and Ottoman occupiers. The group's name literally means "horsemen", but in Georgian it has a meaning closer to "knights" (this alternative translation has occasionally been used). Each member of the organization would take an oath to defend Georgia's people, the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church and Georgia's land, and wore a medallion with a scene of Saint George slaying the dragon on one side and the bearer's name and blood type on the other.
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