AKHALTSKHA’S ARMENIAN SCHOOLS BARRED FROM ATTENDING GENOCIDE EVENTS
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April 24, 2012 | 12:05
AKHALTSKHA. – Principals from the schools of all Armenian villages
surrounding, and those Armenian schools in, Georgia’s Akhaltskha city
were summoned to a meeting Monday at the city’s Resource Center.
They where were warned against attending on Tuesday, and on the account
of classes, the Armenian Genocide’s 97th anniversary commemoration
events, which they were attending every year and without any
obstructions, Akhaltskha.net informs.
This is the first instance, in the history of independent Georgia,
when Akhaltskha schools are barred from taking part in Genocide
commemoration activities and church requiem service.
Akhaltskha, Akhaltsikhe in Georgian, is a city in Javakhk-Georgian
name: Javakheti-which an Armenian-populated part of Georgia’s
southeastern Samtskhe-Javakheti Province.
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