Destruction of Christian cemeteries; the Azerbaijani proved to be talented students of Ottoman-Turks

PanARMENIAN.Net - As the Chief Engineer of Civil Service Trust Firuz Askerov announced, "The rumors about pulling down the graves in Narimanovski Cemetery are mere fabrications. They are here to work on the construction of the road near the cemetery." According to him, up to this day 134 graves have been moved from this cemetery to the Cemetery of Govsanakh. F. Askerov mentioned that besides Azeri graves there are also Russian, Georgian, Tatar graves in the cemetery (by the way, there was no mention about the Armenian graves). He underlined that "only the graves which impede the construction works will be removed." Nothing was mentioned about the dates of the completion of the construction works.

According to the co-chairman of the Russian community in Azerbaijan Alexander Alekseev, at present, by instructions of officials, using the building machinery supposedly for the road construction, burial places and gravestones are being destroyed. "The instruction of the Baku mayor itself is not correct from juridical point of view, since according to the sanitary regulations decision of 1977, which is still in force, before any construction works are carried out on the territory of cemetery, the cemetery must be closed for 50 years. This cemetery is not closed, it still functions, and the last funerals in this very cemetery were registered two weeks ago," said A. Alekseev.

What is going on in cemetery at the moment may be qualified as nothing else but vandalism; graves and gravestones are being destroyed, 150 m of the cemetery has already been covered up with earth, there are no trees left. Destruction of more than 100 graves is more than just a crime. If the reburial is necessary, it can be done in a more civilized way, the way it is accepted all over the world. The Jewish News Agency says, that according to several members of Jewish Diaspora in Baku, "the ones working on the cemetery dig the graves and treat the bodies of Jewish people buried there as debris." The director of the cemetery said that there had been no problems with the relatives of the deceased so far.

There is nothing new or surprising about the way Azeri treat the deceased. It is the country's policy of extermination of people of other nationality. Russian and Jewish cemeteries in Azerbaijan will have the same fate as the Armenian cemeteries in Sumgait, Gandzak, which were destroyed and cleaned out. The Armenian graves made of marble were swept away, and after the notes on the gravestones were erased, they were sold as construction materials. The Armenian Church in Gandzak is turned into chaikhana, the Armenian temples in Karabakh are left in ruins. The Azerbaijani proved to be talented students of Ottoman-Turks; as it is well-known they also pulled down more than 3000 memorials of the Armenian Architecture. Thus Baku's unwillingness to allow the UNESCO Mission on cultural memorial protection and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Mission to visit Azerbaijan is more than understandable. Once again Baku confirmed the fact that all the statements about the imaginary "genocides" of the Jewish and Russian Nations committed by the Armenians are nothing but an attempt to hide their own deeds.