CLASH BETWEEN GEORGIAN SOLDIERS AND JAVAKHK ARMENIANS

Public Radio of Armenia
Sept 25 2006

A clash occurred between young Armenians of Samtskhe-Javakh and
Georgian soldiers at the road to Bakuriani. Six soldiers guiding
the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline stopped an Opel belonging to
22-year-old Vladimir Muradyan.

Checking the documents and finding out that those in the car are
Armenians and do not speak Georgian, the soldiers began teasing and
insulting the young people, Javakhk-Info reports. A quarrel burst out
between the soldiers and 23-year-old Artyusha Iritsyan and Hambartsum
Hovakimyan, following which the Georgians started threatening with
weapons. Seeing that it is senseless to make the soldiers understand
why they do not speak Georgian, the young people drove back.