United Javakhk Censures New Tide of Violence against Armenians

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United Javakhk Censures New Tide of Violence against
Armenian Population in Georgia

12.03.2006 00:59 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ United Javakhk is outraged and
censures the new tide of violence on national ground
in Gugark region (Kvemo-Kartli) of Georgia, says a
statement of United Javakhk Alliance. The document
also notes, `March 9 evening 15 Georgian extremists
attacked residents of Ghushchii village, brutally
killing Gevorg Gevorgyan, 23, while two other
residents of the village were severely wounded and
thus hospitalized. Those attacking fled due to
idleness and permissiveness of law-enforcement bodies.
Instead of urgent measures to arrest those guilty
regional leadership ordered special destination forces
to block all roads, connecting the town with
neighboring Armenian villages. By force actions the
regional authorities tried to suppress the will of the
Armenian population.

United Javakhk Alliance condolences with the widow and
relatives of deceased G. Gevorgyan and draws the
attention of all political and public forces to the
circumstance that unceasing acts of violence and
murder on national ground are a direct consequence of
Georgian leaders’ course for artificial change of the
historically formed ethnic composition of the region.
Large-scale settlement of Georgians in territories
populated by Armenians upsets the ethnic balance in
the region and provokes artificial growth of ethnic
tension, thus forming a center for ethnopolitical
destabilization in the region.

United Javakhk Alliance urges Armenian population in
the region to reserve and composure, as well as
demands that law-enforcement and judicial bodies of
Georgia be guided by the law, irrespective of the
national identity of those, who attacked, and the
victims. It also calls to hold an impartial
investigation of all circumstances of the crime and
make a fair verdict.’