Tert.am
Member of the local Armenian youth organization Hayazn, Tigran Simavoryan has disseminated an open letter criticizing Armenia’s ruling authorities for their indifference to the wildfires that recently burst in Samtskhe-Javakhetti, currently Georgia, while sending firefighters to Russia instead.
Fires in Samtskhe-Javakhetti coincidentally broke out at a time when Russia too was piling efforts to douse peat bog fires that were devastating large areas causing a surge in wheat prices in world prices after Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin imposed a ban on wheat export.
“On August 4 wild fires broke out in Atskuri village in Akhaltskha region in Samtskhe-Javakhetti. The fires lasted a week. We armenians did not do anything to help our brothers.
What did we do at the state level? Of course, nothing. We preferred to help our ‘fraternal’ Russia, while we did not try to do anything to help part of our homeland which is at a stone’s throw far [from us],” reads the letter in part.
The letter comes after Armenia sent 4 firefighting vehicles and a brigade of 28 heavily equipped firefighters to Russia where they joined the firefighting efforts more than a week.
August 27, 2010