The participants of the demonstartion held 28 years ago gathered.at the April 9 Memorial. They recalled the details of this terrible day .

"I was here on that day and saw everything. My recallections are very bitter, but later it turned into a good day, the Independence Day, "- one of the participants of the rally said..

"The goal, for which we were standing here that night s has actually been achieved, although at the expence of the sacrifice, but we wanted Georgia to be independent, to have a better future and I think that to some level the goal is achieved," - said the April 9, 1989 participants Lela Vepkhvadze.