IN JAVAKHK GEORGIAN STUDENTS TRY TO PRESENT ARMENIAN CHURCH AS
GEORGIAN

AKHALKALAKI, August 23 (Noyan Tapan). Students of a number of higher
schools of Tbilisi visit Javakhk with a “Parvana” expedition for the
fifth time in succession. It is initiated and headed by monk Nikoloz,
Head of the so-called Gumburdo and Akhalkalak Diocese of the Georgian
Orthodox Church. According to the “A-Info” Agency, if last year the
expedition was mainly engaged in collecting stones from Abul mount for
the wall of the monastic complex of Poka, this year it decided to
travel over Javakhk. The 50-member group visited different areas of
Javakhk. The “pilgrimage” of the students started from the Armenian
village of Poka, in the vicinity of which the newly established
Georgian monastic complex is situated, and finished at the same
place. This time the local population also expressed dissatisfaction
in connection with the visit of the Georgian students: the reason was
scornful attitude towards the Armenian holy things, history,
traditions. There was espectially great dissatisfaction in the
villages of Gumburgo and Poka. So, Gumburdo was discontent that the
guests tried to present the Armenian church as Georgian. Poka was
discontent, because the Georgian students spread drugs among the youth
of the village, etc..