"Europe should open its eyes" – MEP visits military pantheon in Armenia

PanARMENIAN.Net - Member of the European Parliament from France Francois-Xavier Bellamy visited the Yerablur military pantheon in Yerevan on Monday, April 5, Bellamy himself said in a Facebook post.

"Under each of these thousands of flags is a soldier who died last year defending Armenia in the face of aggression. Most of them were barely twenty years old," the MEP captioned photos from Yerablur.

"Europe should open its eyes and finally come out of the silence."

Although no final number of casualties has been provided by the Armenian authorities, it is believed that some 4000 soldiers and over 100 civilians were killed in Azerbaijan's war against Nagorno-Karabakh. Many of the are buried in the military pantheon in Yerevan.