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ARMENIAN BLOGGERS PROTEST DESTRUCTION OF ARMENIAN CHURCHES IN GEORGIA
PanARMENIAN.Net
27.11.2008 17:59 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian bloggers gathered at the Georgian Embassy
in Yerevan today to demand that demolition of the Armenian cultural
heritage be stopped and those guilty be punished.
The protesters were carrying posters of Norashen church and banners
reading "Save Armenian churches in Georgia", "Republic of Georgia
not Europe still Asiatic" and a small coffin with an inscription "The
newborn Georgian democracy. This newborn democracy is dead already"
on it.
What is happening to Armenian churches in Georgia is nothing but
genocide of our cultural heritage, according to historian Samvel
Karapetyan. A crime has been committed and those guilty should be
punished by the international court, he said yesterday.
Over 650 Armenian churches are situated in the territory of Georgia,
most of them already appropriated or destructed by the Georgian side.
On November 16, Georgian monk Tariel Sikinchelashvili instructed
workers to raze to the ground the graves of Mikhail and Lidia
Tamamshevs.
This barbarian act outraged Armenians, who demanded to let the graves
in their place. However, Father Tariel responded with harsh statements.
Upon arrival of representatives of the Armenian Apostolic Church and
parliament member Van Bayburt, the Georgian monk said he just wanted
to replace the gravestones to "clean under them."
PanARMENIAN.Net
27.11.2008 17:59 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian bloggers gathered at the Georgian Embassy
in Yerevan today to demand that demolition of the Armenian cultural
heritage be stopped and those guilty be punished.
The protesters were carrying posters of Norashen church and banners
reading "Save Armenian churches in Georgia", "Republic of Georgia
not Europe still Asiatic" and a small coffin with an inscription "The
newborn Georgian democracy. This newborn democracy is dead already"
on it.
What is happening to Armenian churches in Georgia is nothing but
genocide of our cultural heritage, according to historian Samvel
Karapetyan. A crime has been committed and those guilty should be
punished by the international court, he said yesterday.
Over 650 Armenian churches are situated in the territory of Georgia,
most of them already appropriated or destructed by the Georgian side.
On November 16, Georgian monk Tariel Sikinchelashvili instructed
workers to raze to the ground the graves of Mikhail and Lidia
Tamamshevs.
This barbarian act outraged Armenians, who demanded to let the graves
in their place. However, Father Tariel responded with harsh statements.
Upon arrival of representatives of the Armenian Apostolic Church and
parliament member Van Bayburt, the Georgian monk said he just wanted
to replace the gravestones to "clean under them."