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    PanARMENIAN.Net

    Armenians of Georgia Ask Saakashvili Personal Control
    of Investigation of Tsalka Incident

    11.03.2006 18:44 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Public Movement Multinational
    Georgia and Nor Serund Union of Georgian Armenians
    have appealed to Georgian President Mikhail
    Saakashvili, asking to take the investigation of the
    case of attack against a group of Armenians in Tsalka
    town under his personal control. As the Press Service
    of the Multinational Georgia Common Civil Movement
    union told PanARMENIAN.Net, a respective letter will
    be sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of
    Georgia. Besides, Public Movement Multinational
    Georgia and Nor Serund NGOs demanded soonest possible
    exposure of the murder case, identification of those
    guilty and announcing their names, punishing them, as
    well as admitting representatives of the NGOs to the
    investigation.

    To remind, On March 9, at about 06:00 p.m. local time,
    in the city of Tsalka (regional center of Kvemo-Kartli
    Region, Georgia) an armed attack was held against a
    group of young ethnic Armenians. An Armenian,
    23-year-old Gevorg Gevorgyan, died in the hand-to-hand
    fight. The victims say, when they were getting into
    the car, unidentified people suddenly attacked them.
    Those attacking opened the door and slaughtered Gevorg
    Gevorgyan absolutely without a reason. They also
    injured other Armenians with knives. The victims say
    that most of those attacking spoke the Svan dialect of
    the Georgian language and that they did not know them
    or have not seen in Tsalka before. Besides, the armed
    attack did not have a cause - they had not even spoken
    to those people.

    Outraged with the incident, Tsalka Armenians held a
    rally (some 500 persons) in front of the police
    building. They demanded a fair punishment for the
    murderers. The policemen batoned the protesting
    Armenians. Witnesses say that along with police, local
    criminal groupings took part in disseminating those
    gathered. Eyewitnesses say that March 10 special
    destination forces blocked roads, leading from
    Armenian villages to Tsalka, as well as took under
    control in fat all state institutions in the town.
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