MEMORIAL TO VICTIMS OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE OPENS IN VILLAGE OF GUMBURDO, JAVAKHK

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jun 26 2006

AKHALKALAK, JUNE 26, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. A memorial to the
victims of the Armenian Genocide was placed in the village of Gumburdo,
Akhalkalak region, with the sponsorship of a few benefactors residing
in Russia.

According to the A-Info agency, the official unveiling of the memorial
took place on June 22. Those speaking at the unveiling ceremony once
again condemned the Armenian Genocide. At the same time they called on
the Georgian authorities to follow the example of a number of civilized
European countries and also to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

The placing of the memorial in Gumburdo is also symbolic as in 1918
the inhabitants of this village heroically put up resistance to the
Turks who invaded into Javakhk. In these years the half of the Javakhk
population of about 80 thousand people was killed by Turks.