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20.11.2009 17:25
 Alisa Gevorgyan
“Radiolur”
“Armenians are barbarously destroying Garaji cemetery in Azerbaijan’s occupied Agdam region,” representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan declared a few days ago.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic has already issued a statement on this occasion, saying that” Polukhov’s statements can be evaluated as a regular attempt to cast a shade on the Nagorno Karabakh Republic and draw the international community’s attention away from the vandalism organized systematically by the Baku authorities, in particular, the destruction of the primarily Armenian Narimanov cemetery in Baku on the pretext of building a highway, or the recent destruction of khachkars (cross stones) in Old Jugha in Nakhichevan where no military activities took place.”
According to Samvel Karapetyan, head of Research on Armenian Architecture NGO, this is a usual policy of Azerbaijan to conceal its own barbarity and crimes. Maybe, in Azerbaijan’s logic, the loss of two damaged gravestones of a Soviet-times cemetery can be considered barbarity as compared to the destruction of the thousands of crossstones of the millennia-old Jugha cemetery.
According to the same Azerbaijani logic, Armenians that have liberated their own motherland are called occupants.
The false alarm of our neighbors made Samvel Karapetyan recall the real barbarities not only in Nakhijevan, but also in other regions under Azerbaijani control. Because of well-known reasons, it’s nearly impossible to find information about the Armenian monuments of those regions, Samvel Karapetyan said.
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