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    LACK OF INFORMATION TO BLAME FOR ETHNIC ARMENIAN UNREST - GEORGIAN GOVERNOR

    Rustavi-2 TV, Tbilisi
    13 Mar 06

    [Presenter] There was another protest today in Akhalkalaki [mostly
    ethnic Armenian town in Georgia's Samtskhe-Javakheti province where
    riots broke out on 11 March]. This time it was students of the
    Javakheti branch of the [Tbilisi] state university who took to the
    street. Their main demand was for the university branch to retain
    its current status. Protesters were saying that students should not
    get involved in political conflicts.

    Simultaneously, the president's representative in Samtskhe-Javakheti
    [governor Giorgi Khachidze] was meeting Akhalkalaki residents and
    Armenian nongovernment organizations.

    The incidents on Saturday were today described as vandalism, but
    members of Armenian nongovernment organizations also demanded that
    government business in the region be conducted in Armenian. [Passage
    omitted]

    [Khachidze, interviewed after the meeting] Many problems arise as a
    result of people not having enough information. Quite a few things have
    been sorted out today and they have received a lot of information. The
    better informed the public, the less likely such incidents will be.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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