The Georgian Parliamentary Interim Commission has concluded on Tuesday that Georgia's first president, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, could not have committed suicide.
The Georgian parliament passed a resolution on Tuesday asking the chief prosecutor's office to react appropriately to new circumstances surrounding the death of Gamsakhurdia.
Georgia's former president, a persecuted human rights advocate in Soviet times, died under mysterious circumstances in 1993, aged 54, two years after being ousted and replaced by Eduard Shevardnadze and following a civil war. The official version of the Georgian government under Shevardnadze's rule was that Gamsakhurdia had killed himself.
The commission is run by Gamsakhurdia's son Konstantin.
After Mikheil Saakashvili became Georgian president in 2003, he rehabilitated Gamsakhurdia and released his supporters, imprisoned during Shevardnadze's rule.
For more than a year after his death, Gamsakhurdia's body was missing. It was recovered in February 1994 and reburied in Grozny, the capital of Russia's republic of Chechnya, at his widow's request.
The remains of Gamsakhurdia were later exhumed in March 2007 and were sent to his family in Tbilisi, Georgia's capital, for reburial.
A law enforcement official said in March 2007 that an examination of the remains revealed two holes in the skull, which might have been caused by bullets.
TBILISI, February 22 (RIA Novosti)
