Georgian opposition parties are holding a protest rally in Tbilisi, calling for President Mikheil Saakashvili's resignation and snap parliamentary elections.

The rally also marks one year since the government cracked down on opposition's mass rallies.

Mass protests over Saakasvili's policy started in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi a year ago, but as tension escalated, the Georgian government declared a nationwide state of emergency and violently suppressed demonstrations.

The new protests are yet another test for Saakashvili's rule after the brief war against Russia in August.

Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia suggest that Georgia's military attacked the isolated separatist capital of Tskhinvali on August 7 with indiscriminate artillery and rocket fire, exposing civilians, Russian peacekeepers and unarmed monitors to harm.

The new revealings put into question Georgian claims that the military was acting defensively against separatist and Russian aggression.

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