Baku Armenians are time-workers in Borchali villages
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21 Jul 2009 11:35 ]
Marneuli. Nizami Mammadzadeh –APA. “Armenians prefer to live in other countries than Armenia because of unemployment and poverty in the country”, the Armenians receiving refugee status in Armenia told APA Georgian bureau.
After the closing of Sadakhli market, the Armenians were forced to work by the day in the houses of Azerbaijanis in Borchali villages of Georgia. They engage mostly in the agricultural work. Every day hundreds of Armenians crossed the Georgian borders to search jobs in the Azerbaijani houses in Borchali. They are working for three lari per day.
Ashot, a 40-year old Armenian told APA that they look at the Armenians born in Azerbaijan and received refugee status in Armenia as a second-rate man and even don’t give in marriage their daughters.
There are Armenians who are selling fruits in the markets of Marneuli and Tbilisi, but they said they couldn’t earn enough money because of high customs duty in Georgia. Local Armenians living in Marneuli can come to understanding with the Georgian customs offices and carry fruits to Armenia.
Local official of the Sadakhli village Aflatun Veliyev told APA that hundreds of Armenian citizens crossed the Sadakhli customs station in recent years to search jobs in Borchali or to go abroad.