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

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."