Fear and loathing in Tsalka

Armenians and Azerbajanians have been crying about their genocide in Georgia since Soviet Union collapse. Behind their yells it is quite difficult to catch complains of 1,500 ethnic Greeks living in Tsalka for nearly 200 years. Apparently Saakashvili?s government aims to make Georgia the country of single nation. So they?re trying hard to get rid of all other peoples at any price.
Thus Saakashvili allowed displaced persons from Abkhazia, Achara and Svaneti settling in Tsalka region. But at the same time Georgian State budget includes too small sums for providing housing for those people. Of course local Greeks are very unwilling to sell their homes for nothing. As a matter of fact majority of those ?poor displaced persons? consists of criminal characters. So they merely chuck out rightful owners from their houses by force threatening and even murdering residential population.
Hundreds of Greeks who return to Tsalka after searching of a job often find their houses illegally occupied or looted and dismantled. But authorities on purpose don?t provide this region withroads and infrastructure and don?t undertake proper measures for providing security of local Greeks.
So from 30,000 Greeks there are only 1,500 left now. And their population has been decreasing every year. Soon Mikho will get his ends and soon you?ll be able to find an ethnic Greek only in Greek embassy to Georgia. And after that Georgians dare to be looking forward to good relations and co-operation with Greece! If I were Saakashvili, I would be very much ashamed to visit Greece.