11:13, 7 May 2006

Residents of Azerbaijani village of Georgia protest against unfair land allocation

Residents of the village of Yagublu of the Dmanisskiy District of Region Kvemo Kartli-Borchaly of Georgia, where Azerbaijanis are compactly residing, in protest against unfair land allocation, held an action in front of the building of the State Chancellery of Georgia. The state television channel AzTV informed that the action participants stated that they were forced to undertake it, because they had failed to receive any satisfactory answer from the management of the executive power of the district and province of their region. In their words, after liquidation of the state farm in the village, a limited liability company was founded instead. Certain David Dautashvili was appointed the head of the company. According to local Azerbaijanis, he banned local residents to use the pastures of total area of 240 hectares and arable area of 50 hectares, but allocated the land to residents of the neighbouring villages. And residents of the Yagublu village are forced to buy expensive pastures and arable land plots located tens kilometres away from their houses.