When was Jumber Patiashvili removed from his position as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party by Gorbachev ?
The move caused mass protests from the Georgian community , which accounted for by far the largest single group in ( 45 , 7 %) of the population of the Abkhaz ASSR , and were resolutely opposed to any diminution of their links with the Georgian republic , holding rival demonstrations within Abkhazia and within Georgia proper .