YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS APPLY TO GEORGIAN AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA
By Aghavni Harutyunian
AZG Armenian Daily
16/03/2006
Javakhk: Cause for Concern
Following the murder of 23-year-old Gevorg Gevorgian on March 9 in
Tsalka, Georgia, the youth organizations of Armenia sent a letter to
Revaz Gachicheladze, Georgian ambassador to Yerevan. According to
official statement of Georgia, law-enforcing bodies of the country
see domestic reasons beyond the murder though eyewitnesses claim the
Armenian was murdered as a result of fight that few young Georgian
provoked.
“Taking into consideration the nature of the crime and its social
danger and the recent policies toward Armenians of Javakhk, we demand
impartial investigation into this case,” the statement reads.
The letter to the Georgian ambassador states that the murder of the
Armenian young man falls on the days of destruction and appropriation
of Armenian cultural monuments in Georgia. Such policy of Georgia goes
against its obligations before the Council of Europe and elementary
tolerance.
The Youth wing of Armenian Aryan Union also issued a statement
demanding to stop “Georgianization” of Armenian monuments in Georgia
and on territories of historic Armenia, to punish those guilty in
murder of the Armenian and to stop the policy of de-Armeniazation
and assimilation in the country.