UNKNOWN PEOPLE PUT UP LEAFLETS THREATENING ARMENIANS IN GEORGIAN REGION
Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Oct 12 2005
Akhalkalaki, 12 October: On the night of 11-12 October, unknown
people pasted up about 1,000 leaflets in Russian in Akhalkalaki [in
Georgia’s Armenian-populated region]. They were signed by an unknown
organization called the Akhaltsikhe Liberation Brigade and depicted
the Turkish coat of arms.
The leaflets “ordered” the Armenian population to leave this area
immediately and go to “Armenia, Russia, America and so on”, A-Info
news agency reports. “Otherwise, you will be massacred like your
ancestors in 1915,” the leaflets said.
The council of the Armenian public organizations of Samtskhe-Javakheti
and many residents of Akhalkalaki think that the authors of the
leaflets, whoever they are, are playing with fire, terrorizing the
Armenian population of the region and trying to foment the situation,
which does not meet the interests of the Georgian and Armenian
population.
In this regard, the district council of Akhalkalaki invited the heads
of the district law-enforcement agencies – the prosecutor’s office,
police and state security agency – to its plenary session on 12
October to explain the situation.
The session asked the heads of these agencies to identify those who
spread the leaflets and issue a statement to the public in the next
few days.
Although the threat is addressed to the Armenians of Akhaltsikhe,
these leaflets did not appear in Akhaltsikhe itself and Ninotsminda
by the afternoon of 12 October.