Sharmazanov: Holy Martyrs Armenian Church’s blowup is cultural genocide
Vice-Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly Edward Sharmazanov met with Czech Republic Senate Vice-President Miluše Horská in Prague.
In his remarks, Mr Sharmazanov condemned the terrorist act against the Holy Martyrs Armenian Church in Deir ez-Zor. He called it cultural genocide and added that it was destruction of not only Armenian spiritual values, but also of common Christian values and it was the continuation of the destruction of Armenian monuments in Nakhichevan and in Turkey.
He said that the international community’s condemnation of the destruction of Armenian cultural heritage could have prevented the explosion of the Holy Martyrs Church in Deir ez-Zor.