Tbilisi Does Everything Possible To Drive Armenians Out Of Javakheti

TBILISI DOES EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO DRIVE ARMENIANS OUT OF JAVAKHETI

PanARMENIAN.Net
April 15 2009

Georgia is multiethnic country and solution of domestic problems is
not possible without participation of ethnic minorities, an Armenian
expert said.

"Today oppositionists do not suggest any idea to lead the country
out of the current situation. That is why Armenian population of
Samtskhe-Javakheti does not anchor hopes with them. That is hopeless
war for ruling and ethnic minorities of Georgia are passive in this
respect," Haykazun Alvrtsyan, director of Western Armenians Studies
Center, told reporters in Yerevan.

Dwelling on the problems of the Armenian population of Javakheti,
he noted that Georgian authorities see the problem solution only by
evicting Armenians from this region.

"Retention of Armenian Diaspora in Samtskhe-Javakheti has strategic
meaning for Armenia. If Georgians manage to clear the region from
Armenians, Meskhetian Turks will transmigrate there. In this case
Armenia will be in total Turkish blockade," Alvrtsyan said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS