On 24 April 2012, the day of commemoration of the 97th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, a Member of the Georgian Parliament, Mr. Jondi Baghaturia while making a statement in the Parliament, touched upon the most painful question for the Georgian citizens of Armenian origin – the subject of the Armenian Genocide. This statement caused crude and inappropriate reaction of another Georgian MP, the majority deputy of Marneuli district, Mr. Azer Suleymanov.
Mr. Suleymanov’s incoherent reaction was abusive not only because it considered the fact of the Armenian Genocide in a negative context, but due to the public racist statements made by the MP concerning the Armenian nation. Even though the paragraph 4 article 52 of the Constitution of Georgia states that "A member of the Parliament shall not be proceeded on the account of the ideas and opinions expres
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