Some remarks on 'Dukhobors and Moloccans'

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Subject: Some remarks on 'Dukhobors and Moloccans'

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Some remarks on 'Dukhobors and Moloccans'


Some remarks on A. Bagirov's article "Hostages of a Political 'Game':
Dukhobors and Moloccans Remaining in Southwest Georgia Migrate Mainly
to Russia. But the Causes of This Phenomenon Are Not Only
Cultural-Social"

The author writes:
"According to the Imeni Baratashvili Meskhet Fund, by the end of
February 1999 about 600 members of this ethnic group [Meskhetians] had
returned TO THEIR NATIVE PARTS."

In fact, only five or six of them returned TO THEIR NATIVE PARTS, i.
e. to Southern Georgia: having entered Akhaltsikhe University, they
are living in a hostel there. The rest of them live mostly in Tbilisi,
and only a hundred or so live in Western Georgia, far away from THEIR
NATIVE PARTS. Most of them have not been given Georgian citizenship so
far. The very figure 600 seems to be greatly exaggerated.

Emil Adelkhanov,
CIPDD

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