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A provocation against the Georgian church appropriated by Armenian immigrants in Samtskhe-Javakheti, which was being prepared for five years

09.06.20 18:00


After the provocateurs failed to carry out the planned provocation, thanks to the vigilance of the State Security Service (GBS) of Georgia on the Georgian-Azerbaijani border in the David Gareji region, a new dirty trick was organized around the Georgian church, which was earlier appropriated by the Armenians. It is an ancient Georgian temple in the village of Gomani, Akhalkalaki municipality.

 

This ancient Georgian church in 1847 was transformed by Armenian immigrants from Turkey to “Armenian” and here all traces of its Georgian origin were destroyed in every way. However, experts of the National Agency for the Protection of the Cultural Heritage of Georgia rightly assumed that this church was founded much earlier and was not Armenian at all. As a result, the temple in the village of Gomani was included in the list of cultural heritage sites.

 

The church in the village of Gomani should have been carefully studied by archaeologists, especially since it was included in the list of 442 Georgian churches that the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) officially claims in Georgia.

 

The most interesting thing is that in the village of Gomani, strange things began to happen several years ago. Some unknown people began to walk around the village for no reason. Knocking at home and scaring locals. On this occasion, the material “The Riddle of the Gomani Village” (http://jnews.ge/?p=2138) was published on the jnews.ge website. Here is an excerpt from it:

 

“Residents of the village of Gomani of the Akhalkalaki municipality live in fear, unknown at night knock on doors and windows, jnews.ge found out from a letter from a resident of the village of Gomani, an 8th-grade student, Apet Bandikyan. While jnews.ge on the spot will understand the described situation, we present to your attention to the letter of Apet.

 

“Today in the village of Gomani of the Akhalkalaki municipality, an amazing phenomenon is happening. In this village, residents have been in fear and horror for several months. An unknown person, or people - for everyone this is a mystery, at night they pass around houses located on the outskirts of the village and knock on doors, windows, sometimes gates are thrown with stones. At first, when they talked about it, it seemed ridiculous and unrealistic, but gradually this situation worsened more.

 

The first time this happened in early August 2014, which was repeated several months before November. From November last year to March of this year, people did not talk about this riddle; it seemed that the village again began to live with its daily concerns. But on March 10 the same story repeated itself. If last year they knocked on doors and windows, they are now harming people..."

 

No one then understood, in 2015, what the purpose of the troublemakers of the residents of the village of Gomani was and who they were. Since the strange nocturnal adventures of the unknown around them abruptly stopped, as they began.

 

And then, finally, it became clear why then such strange things were happening in the village of Gomani. Most likely, it was then planned to abuse the church in this village. Vandals probably wanted to first destroy the traces of its Georgian origin.

 

But for some reason, the provocateurs changed their plans and abused the church of the village of Gomani now, in June 2020, an act of vandalism was committed five years after those strange events of the “night campaigns of the unknown” in Gomani.

 

A recent report by the National Agency for the Protection of the Cultural Heritage of Georgia states that unidentified people damaged the temple and graves in the courtyard of the temple in the Gomani village of the Akhalkalaki municipality in Samtskhe-Javakheti. Numerous injuries were discovered by employees of the inspection team of the Agency's Oversight Service.

 

“After inspecting the place, traces of the work of heavy machinery on land near the three facades of the church (western, southern, and eastern) have already been confirmed. Specialists recorded human bones randomly scattered around the church. The stone at the entrance to the church is also damaged,” the department said.

 

At the moment, agency employees are identifying the degree of damage to the cultural heritage monument, and the police are looking for those responsible.

 

Based on a statement from the agency, the Samtskhe-Javakheti Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case on the fact of damage to the cultural heritage monument.

 

At the same time, the News of Armenia website provides interesting information - that they say “Gomani is important from the point of view of studying the history of the ancient world. "Archaeologists have repeatedly found fragments of pottery that date back to the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages".

 

It is possible that the attackers deliberately removed, “cleaned up” or destroyed slabs and tombstones with Georgian inscriptions and planted new “ancient inscriptions”. The likelihood that “under the guise” of the defeat of the temple and cemetery, the attackers simply replaced the stones with Georgian inscriptions that were previously available here with Armenian inscriptions is very high.


Since it was difficult to do this accurately and invisibly, a pogrom was specially organized for this purpose.

 

It is also possible that Armenian nationalists are trying to accuse the Georgian side of vandalism. But this, in principle, could not be. Firstly, Georgians are always careful about cultural monuments. And secondly, at present not a single Georgian lives in Gomani and in the neighboring Armenian villages, and Georgians almost never come here.

 

 

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