Silence: The Armenians and everything Armenian in Georgia. Premiere (video)

Silence: The Armenians and Everything Armenian in Georgia. The premiere of this documentary, produced by Research on Armenian Architecture Foundation, took place in Yerevan.

The documentary film presents the attitude of the Georgian state towards the national minorities in the country over the recent 80 years. The Armenian and Azerbaijani communities are comparatively the largest among the ethnic minorities existing in Georgia.

Since the 1920s, the Georgian authorities have been continually destroying the non-Georgian religious monuments located in the country. The monuments that have fallen prey to this policy particularly include over 300 Armenian Apostolic, Catholic and Orthodox churches as well as monasteries, cemeteries and mosques. Since the years of Zviad Gamsakhurdia's presidency, these acts have been accompanied with the policy of forcing the non-Georgian inhabitants of the country into repudiating their original family names and replacing them with Georgian ones.

Directed by Tiran Karapetyan, music by Aidin Davoudi.

Now the film can be watched with English subtitles.