Documentary on Georgia’s Armenians screened in Yerevan (video)

 February 12, 2013 - 16:20 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - “Silence: The Armenians and Everything Armenian in Georgia” documentary produced by Research on Armenian Architecture Foundation was screened in Yerevan.

The documentary presents the attitude of the Georgian authorities towards the national minorities in the country over the recent 80 years.

Since the 1920s, the Georgian authorities have been continually destroying the non-Georgian religious monuments located in the country, the Foundation says in a press release.

The monuments that have fallen prey to this policy particularly include over 300 Armenian Apostolic, Catholic and Orthodox churches as well as monasteries, cemeteries and mosques.

Since the years of Zviad Gamsakhurdia's presidency, these acts have been accompanied with the policy of forcing the non-Georgian inhabitants of the country into repudiating their original family names and replacing them with Georgian ones, the Foundation says.

The documentary was directed by Tiran Karapetyan, music was composed by Aidin Davoudi.

Now the film is available with English subtitles.