Azerbaijan destroys Artsakh’s Vank village memorial, khachkar

PanARMENIAN.Net - Azerbaijan has demolished a memorial complex in the village of Vank, Martakert region, including a khachkar (cross-stone) and a commemorative wall honoring fallen fighters. The information was reported by the Artsakh Monuments Facebook page.

“This barbaric, anti-Armenian, anti-cultural destruction by Azerbaijan continues unrestrained in Artsakh. Everything Armenian is being systematically erased. In Vank village, Azerbaijani forces have destroyed the World War II memorial, the khachkar commemorating fallen freedom fighters of the Artsakh wars, and a memorial wall depicting their images,” the post reads.

Photos of the destruction have been published online.

This incident adds to a pattern of systematic cultural erasure. In the village of Haterk, also under Azerbaijani control, a WWII memorial has already been destroyed. Since the 2020 war, monuments in Hadrut, Shushi, and Azokh village—including memorials to WWII victims, the First Karabakh War, and the Armenian Genocide—have also been demolished.