ETHNIC ARMENIAN MP BEAT IN GEORGIA
Pan Armenian News
07.05.2005 03:45
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ May 1 servicemen of the special military detachment
of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia beat Georgian MP
Hayk Meltonian and over 30 residents of Ghushchi Armenian village,
reported A-Info. The special detachment servicemen arrived in the
village and started a quarrel with a young resident of the village and,
feeling insulted with the response, hit him. This entailed beating
the Armenians that have gathered at the scene. At the time Georgian MP
Hayk Meltonian was in the village to congratulate the veterans of the
Great Patriotic War. Getting to know about the incident, he arrived
there. Introducing himself as a Parliament Deputy, Meltonian asked the
servicemen to stop the fight, however he found himself “in the heat
of the moment.” The police of Tsalka region instituted no proceedings
over the case, however apologies the servicemen apologized to the MP,
as well as to Ghushchi residents.