GEORGIAN SCHOOL RAIDED IN AKHALKALAKI REGION; A STUDENT WHO ARRIVED
FOR RESTORATION OF THE MONASTERY WAS BEAT UP

TBILISI, JULY 18. ARMINFO-BLACK SEA PRESS. Georgian school was raided
in Akhalkalaki region. A student who arrived for restoration of the
monastery was beat up.

Fifteen young men in the intoxicated state are guilty of the first
incident. Kakha Legashvili, head of Samtskhe-Javakheti police, said
that criminal proceedings were instituted.

Another incident took place in Akhalkalaki region yesterday. Armenian
residents of the village of Samsa prevented group of Tbilisi students
from cleaning of the area at the local monastery, the cultural memorial
of XII century.

The students and the local Armenians quarelled after argument about
being the monastery Georgian or Armenian. The quarrel turned into
fight. A student was taken to Tbilisi hospital with brain concussion.
Kakha Legashvili reported that police had to interfere. Criminal
proceedings have been instituted after the second incident too.

The Georgian students left for Foka and Ninotsminda monasteries of
the same region.