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Armenia condemns destruction of Christian cemetery in Baku |
Vladimir Karapetian, a spokesman for foreign ministry, said Armenia condemns the destruction of a Christian (Narimanov) cemetery in Azerbaijan’s capital city Baku. The cemetery had mainly Armenian and Russian graves, also of Georgians and Jews. The authorities in Baku have ordered destruction of the cemetery under the pretext of building a circumventing road to ease heavy traffic in downtown Baku, but images posted on the Internet show that the graves are being leveled by bulldozers and relatives have no opportunity to rebury the remains of their deceased. According to Vladimir Karapetian, this decision fits entirely into the rationale of the policy of the official Baku designed to completely eradicate Armenian cultural monuments in the territory of the Azerbaijani republic, to eliminate any trace of the rich Armenian legacy in Azerbaijan. He said now the official Baku is encroaching on the rights of other national minorities, particularly, Russians, who sent a letter to president Ilham Aliyev demanding that he orders an immediate end to this barbarism. “We regard the destruction of the Narimanov cemetery in Baku as continuation of the policy for destruction of the old Armenian cemetery in Julfa in the autonomous Nakhichevan, which is to be blamed also on international organizations, which have given in to Azerbaijani pressure and failed to display resolution and send a monitoring mission to Nakhichevan to assess the scale of destruction of Armenian monuments there,” he said.
/Translated by Marianna Karapetyan/
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Today is 9.02.2010
