Azerbaijan destroys not only cemeteries in Artsakh, but also any evidence of them

The State Service for the Protection of the Historical Environment of the Artsakh Republic warns that hostile Azerbaijan is destroying not only cemeteries, but also any evidence of these cemeteries.

"Aliyev's war against Khachkars

History repeats itself, vandals destroy not only cemeteries, but also any evidence of those cemeteries. A Turk remains a Turk and does his Turkish thing, the khachkar was vandalized in Ivanyan.

Once upon a time, we referred to the khachkar erected in Ivanyan village, its background and advice.

When in 1920, during the Armenian-Azerbaijani (Tatar) conflicts, Khojalu was settled again, Armenians from Berdadzor (Gharaghshlagh), survivors of the great Shushi massacre settled in the western part of the settlement, and Azerbaijanis who escaped from Yeghegnadzor (Daralagyaz) and Sisian settled in the eastern part. These two parts lived separately, but bore the same name Khojalu and were subject to the same village council, whose presidents were Hovsep Avagyan and Bakhshi Sargsyan ("Soviet Karabakh", 24.10.1990).

In the southwestern part of Khojaly, there was a small Armenian cemetery /25-30 tombstones/, where the remains of Armenians who settled here from Berdadzor were buried. According to eyewitnesses, during the Artsakh movement, when the Armenians had to leave their home again, the Azerbaijanis destroyed the Armenian cemetery and filled the tombstones in the opposite valley. Ishkhan Sargsyan, the great-grandson of the aforementioned Bakhsh Sargsyan, erected a commemorative khachkar in the area of the cemetery, where his relatives are also buried," it is stated on the page of the State Service for the Protection of the Historical Environment.