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The video that shows how ISIS militants destroy Iraqi museum exhibits in Mosul, mutilating ancient statues, is appalling. Armed with hammers and other tools, the members of ultra-radical terrorist group destroyed ancient unique artifacts of the world's most ancient civilizations. The wanton destruction of cultural and historical monuments reminds how about 10 years ago, Azerbaijan destroyed and razed to the ground an entire medieval Armenian cemetery in Julfa turning it into a shooting ground, writes William Bayramian on “The Armenite” site.

In his article the author tells how, since 1998, Azerbaijan began the demolition of thousands of Armenian cross-stones patterned, that were decorating tombstones in the Armenian medieval cemetery in Julfa, located on the territory of Nakhijevan, which was passed to Azerbaijan during the USSR time. In the early 21st century, the Azerbaijani servicemen smashed Armenian gravestones using sledgehammers and threw them into the river Arax, erasing traces of Armenian culture. The the ancient Armenian cemetery soon was replaced by a military shooting range.

“ISIS destroyed exhibits of more than 2,500 year-old prescription. Azerbaijan destroyed the eternal resting place of thousands of people. It is not a question of better or worse; these are just different shades of a horror," reads the publication.