Karabakh: Azerbaijanis using gravestones to build a road to ShushiMay 10, 2021 - 14:07 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Azerbaijanis are using gravestones for the construction of a road, Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Foreign Minister David Babayan has said, Sputnik Armenia reports. “They are building roads from Hadrut through [the village of] Karin Tak to Shushi. They are building a large road with a width of 40 meters," Babayan said. According to him, during construction Azerbaijanis destroy gravestones and use them to build the road. The Karabakh foreign policy chief described the practice as vandalism, Both during and after the war in Nagorno-Karabakh in fall 2020, Azerbaijanis repeatedly committed acts of vandalism against Armenian cemeteries and cultural monuments. Concerns about the preservation of cultural sites in Nagorno-Karabakh are made all the more urgent by the Azerbaijani government’s history of systemically destroying indigenous Armenian heritage—acts of both warfare and historical revisionism. The Azerbaijani government has secretly destroyed a striking number of cultural and religious artifacts in the late 20th century. Within Nakhichevan alone, a historically Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani forces destroyed at least 89 medieval churches, 5,840 khachkars (Armenian cross stones) and 22,000 historical tombstones between 1997 and 2006. Top stories Six total incidents have burned 19 old-growth trees. Friday night 8 trees were torched along the beautiful main entrance. The EU does not intend to conduct military exercises with Armenia, Lead Spokesperson for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano says. Hikmet Hajiyev has said that there is no place for USAID operation in Azerbaijan any longer. A telephone conversation between Putin and Pashinyan before the CSTO summit is not planned, Peskov says. Partner news | Ex-Karabakh leader moved to solitary confinement cell in Baku, his son says David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Freedom House concerned by mounting reports of police violence in Armenia Freedom House urged Armenian authorities to investigate this pattern of excessive force and inhumane treatment. Ex-President: Only removal of “defeatist” rulers can save Armenia Former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has shared a message on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Pashinyan: We must stop searching for homeland, we have found that homeland Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has shared a message on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. |