News - Azerbaijan destroying not only Armenian cemeteries in Karabakh, but also any evidence of them (PHOTOS)

The Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) “State Service for Preservation of Historical Environment” State Non-commercial Organization (SNCO) warns that Azerbaijan is destroying not only Armenian cemeteries in Artsakh, but also any evidence of those cemeteries. "[Azerbaijan president] Aliyev's war against [Armenian] cross-stones History repeats itself, vandals are destroying not only cemeteries, but also any evidence of those cemeteries. A Turk remains a Turk and does his Turkish thing; a cross-stone was vandalized in Ivanyan [village of Artsakh]. When in 1920, during the Armenian-Azerbaijani (Tatar) conflicts, Khojallu is settled again, the Armenians who survived the great massacre of Shushi from Berdadzor (Gharaghshlagh) settle in the western part of the settlement, and the Azerbaijanis who escaped from Yeghegnadzor (Daralagyaz) and Sisian settle in the eastern part. These two parts lived separately, but bore the same name Khojallu and were subject to the same village council, whose chairmen were Hovsep Avagyan and Bakhshi Sargsyan (Soviet Karabakh, 24.10.1990). There was a small Armenian cemetery (25-30 tombstones) in the southwestern part of Khojalu, where the remains of Armenians who settled here from Berdadzor were buried. According to eyewitnesses, during the Artsakh movement, when the Armenians had to leave their native settlement again, the Azerbaijanis destroyed the Armenian cemetery and filled the tombstones in the valley across. Ishkhan Sargsyan, the great-grandson of aforementioned Bakhshi Sargsyan, had erected a commemorative cross-stone in the area of the cemetery where his relatives are also buried," the aforesaid SNCO wrote on its website.