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TABATSKURI RESIDENTS AWAITING SUPREME COURT’S DECISION

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Residents of Georgian Borjomi province’s Armenians-dominated village of Tabatskuri have reached a real deadlock in their disputes over compensation they had to be given for using their strops of land for Baku-Tbilisi-Jeyhan oil pipeline construction.

The village is the only spot in the province given no compensation. The villagers explain that unjust distribution of plots to families led to this problem. However, Borjomi region’s other villages’ residents are already given their compensation despite unjust distribution there thanks to the authorities’ efforts.

This problem split Tabatskuri residents into two: they can’t reach an accord on plots. Discord on villagers’ side bars them from obtaining compensation.

A-Info news agency reports the villagers have appealed to local authorities many times but in vain. The officials gave no solution to the problem and are trying to add fuel to the fire by providing false property certificates to the villagers.

After sharing his concern with one of the officials about wrangle among Tabatskuri residents, Grigor Muradyan, a villager, had been told: “How are you quarrelling, if not a single man is killed so far?”

The matter has already reached Georgian Supreme Court and the village is waiting for a decision. The villagers fear they can remain without compensation.