Georgian short term memory loss

Meanwhile, today on wikipedia I was reading about the start of the Abkhaz independence war... Let me give a quick background. The Georgians were a majority in Abkhazia. Many felt discriminated against and wanted stronger ties to Georgia proper. Georgian students petitioned the university to seperate the Georgian section of the university into a branch of the Tbilisi State University. They started demonstrations, and there were demonstrations in Tbilisi, too (which evolved into independence from the USSR rallies Finally Tbilisi decided to go ahead and create the seperate Georgian university branch of the Tbilisi State Uni. The aftermath, not so important to my point, was the Abkhaz war of independence which was defacto successful, but has not been diplomatically so yet.

Why do I bring this up? Well if you know the situation of the Armenians in Georgia - especially Javakhk, you'd notice that the situation is virtually identical. Armenians there are a majority, they are adjacent to Armenia, the feel discriminated against, they have their own universities which are facing problems and have ties with Armenia... but most Georgians don't think back to when they were in the same boat and how bad it was for them. They don't sympathize at all with situation or see the parallels. They only look at the Armenians as provocateurs. It's a shame. I wish they'd open their eyes and see that if they treat the Armenians the way they themselves would like to be treated - it would not only be the right thing to do and possibly prevent future conflict, it would also make the Armenians of Javakhk feel more closely tied to Georgia.