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Azeri soldiers finishing off the remaining of Armenian Khachkars.
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Azeri truck dumping khachkars to the Arax river.

The destruction of Armenian historical monuments on the territory of Azerbaijan has been raised in a new report by an international monitoring body . It reported the discovery in January and February last year of a resumption of destruction of khachkars, adding that the actions “cannot have been carried through without the consent of the Azerbaijan government”.

History

Nakhichevan is an exclave which belongs to Azerbaijan but Armenia’s territory separates them apart. Nakhichevan borders, however, on Armenia, Turkey, and Iran. It was from this area that the Persian King Shah Abbas, during the Persian-Ottoman war, forcibly relocated about 150,000 Armenians year 1620 and resettled them in the outskirts of his capital, Isfahan.

Several Armenian organisations and authorities, among other the Foreign Ministry, have handed in official protests to UNESCO and other international organisation, but also to the US embassy in Azerbaijan.

“Armenia gives a special significance to the deliberate destruction of the Armenian cultural heritage by the Azeri authorities, since those displays of vandalism not only destroy cultural monuments, but also do not contribute to the establishing of mutual confidence between the two nations. Azerbaijan’s actions in Nakhichevan in 2006 were at the center of attention of the RA MFA. In this regard a number of measures were taken in several directions at once. The Armenian MFA informed the international community on the vandalism, which was condemned by CoE and UNESCO. Currently the Azeri side refuses to grant mandates to any international mission for visiting Nakhichevan to estimate the situation on khachkars,” says the report.

References

  1. Azerbaijan: Famous Medieval Cemetery Vanishes
  2. History at Risk: Khachkars of Julfa suffer renewed destruction
  3. Armenian Caucus Co-Chairs Voice Serious Concerns
  4. Baku’s Vandalism in Nakhichevan in 2006 at the Center of Attention of RA MFA

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