Azerbaijan damaged another Armenian cemetery in Shushi
Azerbaijan damaged another Armenian cemetery in the Artsakh town of Shushi between October 5 and November 3, Caucasus Heritage Watch (CHW) warned.
“It appears that bulldozers dumped heaps of debris atop the old Ghazanchetsots cemetery (southeast of the cathedral), endangering the already fragmented tombstones,” it said in a statement on Monday.
The 18-19th c. cemetery had been severely damaged during the Soviet era.
This is the sixth Armenian cemetery impacted since November 2020, after the destruction of Mets Tagher and Sghnakh, damage to the cemetery near Vazgenashen, and damage to Shushi’s Northern and Yerevan Gates cemeteries.
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