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Richard G. Hovannisian, The Republic of Armenia, Volume I, University of Califirnia, Los Angeles, p. 65 1920 The brunt of the war fell not upon the combatants or even the villages of Lori but upon the Armenians of Tiflis and the surrounding communities. Although Zhordonia's government repeatedly underscored the distinction between the Arme­nian people and what it described as a clique of Armenian militarists, it nonetheless took stringent measures against the entire population. On December 24, 1918, the parliament passed legislation making treason punishable by death and confiscating of properties, and two days later the governor of the Tiflis gubernia declared all Armenians technically prisoners of war Those Armenians in Tiflis who were natives of the districts under enemy occupation, that is the southern half of the Borchuvezd, were required to register within twenty-four hours or face prosecution under the law of treason. This announcement was followed by numerous arrests....(P122) Hovannissian continues: The Armenian and Russian organizations in Tiflis protested in vain. The doors of the National Council of Armenians in Georgia were sealed and members of the council were placed under house arrest.” The Armenian newspapers in Georgia were also were shut down. In the weeks after the fighting ended, Georgia arrested hundreds of people and deported them. When the Armenian Council of Georgia was subsequently permitted to resume its activities, it denounced with acerbic indignation the unjust, cruel treatment inflicted by the Georgian government. Its protest read in part: "The explanation of the Minister of Interior that this national persecution must be ascribed to the unauthorized acts of individual officials can only leave the most onerous impression upon the Armenian public, especially since the explanation follows that which has become a most common work of late — a word about the supposed respect for the Armenian people, a word that can now only wound the sensitivity of a people living under the most debasing and oppressive of conditions." (P123) Reaction throughout Georgia was quick and certain. Hovannissian writes: "In the country side, meanwhile, lawless bands and organized units of the People’s (Red) Guard plun­dered Armenian villages and spread terror to gain retribution and to punish the disloyal and treacherous’ inhabitants.”(P124)

Ya uvazhau reshenie moderaterov izmenit topic , no pochemu ? pochemu mi dolzhni ustupat vsem ? Georgians were involved !!!! to some extet !!!! face it , pochemu mi dolzhni boyatsa pravdi? esli me budem izmenyat istoriu v etom forume chtob ne obidet soseda to mi takzhe vinovni kak i Turki skrivaya pravdu. proshu snovo perepravit topic !!!!!!!

Ya iz Gruzii i znau na cht sposobni gruzini chitali li vi knogu Istoriya Rosii Armyanski Sled? napisal ee Suren Ayvazyan tam vse pro eto napisano.

......Between 1918 and 1920, during the Turkish invasion following the genocide of Armenians in western Armenia, the Turkish army massacred more than half of the Armenian population in Samtskhe-Javakhetia, i.e. nearly 40,000 people. The authorities in the independent republic of Georgia, not only failed to defend the Armenian community in the region, but actually helped to kill the Armenians by giving the order to shut the doors and preventing refugees from entering the safety zones in the centre of Georgia. This is why an increased presence in the region of Turks, the country which carried out the genocide and which still refuses to recognise it, would be unacceptable for the Armenians of Javakhetia. from http://www.caucaz.com/home_eng/breve_conte...2454f15977740eb

On September 25 and 26, three Turkish universities Bilgi, Sabanci and Bocazi, hosted a historic conference on the fate of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. This was the first time that the subject has been discussed in Turkey in such a public, high-profile, scholarly setting. Papers were presented by 44 scholars who are Turkish citizens; more than 300 observers from the universities, government, and the media were also in attendance. Twice opponents of the conference had forced its postponement, but they could not achieve its cancellation. The major Turkish newspapers devoted much of their issues to the conference, both the scholarly proceedings and the present-day controversy surrounding the issue of the Armenian Genocide. An event that occurred 90 years ago continues to have major consequences for Turkish politics and society today, with a direct impact on the negotiations set to begin this month on Turkey's possible admission to the European Union. Taner Akc am of the University of Minnesota (USA) Department of History is one of the major organizers of the conference and an internationally-recognized expert on the history of the late Ottoman Empre and the Armenian Genocide. Prof. Akcam will share his impressions of the conference and the major issues confronting Turkey today. Sponsored by the: Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair in the College of Liberal Arts Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Department of History Center for German and European Studies