“By destroying or destroying the neighboring civilization, neither its history will be erased nor its own will be created.” Samuel Garabedian
05 MARCH 2020 – SAMUEL KARAPETIAN.
We are sorry, but today we have to note that the many and varied monuments of Armenian culture created over the centuries have been endangered not only in Turkey, or in the lessons learned by the latter in Azerbaijan, but also in Christian Georgia. Yes, the evidence of Greek, Russian, German and especially Armenian civilizations is being destroyed in that country today.
Unlike the others, the presence of monuments of Armenian culture is more dangerous because of the simple fact that if in some parts of Georgia (Kartli, Kakheti, Imeret), like other nations, Armenians are immigrants, then in the southern regions – indigenous. In the neighboring country, Armenian historical monuments have only been subjected to widespread and purposeful destruction for the last 10 years.
Rumors about the destruction of Armenian churches, cemeteries, khachkars and tombstones in Georgia, and finally the most reliable sources of history – the destruction of lithographs, are no longer sounded as alarming or persistent, but as the most ordinary and everyday occurrence. Of the nearly three dozen Georgian churches and other churches and other buildings that have been scratched, erased, or simply disappeared, inscriptions have already crossed the 300 mark.
By destroying or destroying the neighboring civilization, neither its history will be erased nor its own will be created.
Samuel Garabedian (1961-2020)
Monument, historian, folklore
“Armenian Genocide. Reasons and Lessons ”, Part 2, Yerevan, 1995, p
horizonweekly.ca/en/ Destroying neighbor-civilization /
