Azerbaijan vandalized military cemetery in Artsakh village
Azerbaijan has vandalized a military cemetery and a war memorial inside it in Haterk, a village in Azeri-occupied Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), the Monument Watch reported.
The memorial commemorates those who fell defending the village against Azeri attacks during the first Artsakh war in the early 1990s.
A video posted on Milli TV, an Azerbaijani YouTube channel, on 15 January shows most of the memorial plaques featuring portraits of the war heroes, as well as some tombstones have been overturned.
The video was recorded by Azerbaijanis carrying out work near the memorial. The footage also shows that tools and gas cylinders are placed on memorial stones.
Haterk suffered heavily during the first Artsakh war. 57 people were killed in the battles for self-defense and liberation of the village. The construction of the memorial in the military cemetery began in 2002 and ended in 2005.