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    INCIDENT IN TSALKA: ONE DEAD AS OMBUDSMAN RULES OUT ETHNIC MOTIVE

    The Messenger, Georgia
    March 13 2006

    A brawl which broke out in the multiethnic settlement of Tsalka on
    March 9 left one person dead and two wounded. Gevorg Gevorkyan, 23,
    died at the scene. The brawl participants and those suspected of
    Gevorkyan's murder have been detained, and the reason for the fight
    has yet to be officially determined.

    Rumor spread that the fight was the result of an ethnically motivated
    confrontation between groups of Georgian and Armenian youths and
    Gevorkyan's death led to the formation of a mob outside the regional
    police department on Friday, with participants demanding that one of
    the murder suspects be lynched.

    Meanwhile the Public Defender's office issued a statement promising
    to investigate the incident as a possible hate crime. On Saturday,
    the Ombudsman ruled that the incident was the result of an act of
    "ordinary hooliganism." "Our representatives traveled there and looked
    into the case. We can say that this dispute had nothing to do with
    ethnic confrontation," Ombudsman Sozar Subari announced on March 11.

    Meanwhile, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has announced that the
    situation has calmed down and that order has been restored.
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