Jugha khachkars destruction confirmed...
Sadly, the Armenian reports of the complete destruction of the old Jugha cemetary are correct. If anyone doubted them, a third-party verification has come through for the first time. I don't know what the Armenian government plans to do about this, but frankly, I think peace talks are a joke at this point, and serious action needs to be taken... we are getting treated like crap from way too many directions and taking it way too quietly.
See the article.
...Now an IWPR contributor has become the first journalist to visit the site of the cemetery on Azerbaijan’s border with Iran - and has confirmed that the graveyard has completely vanished.
See the article.
posted by Raffi K. at 12:49 AM
6 Comments:
you might want to read this one as well: http://www.hra.am/eng/?page=issue&id=15680
the question is: how do we coexist with those anumals? the only viable model is the Israeli one, I guess... but do we have enough power?
I'm sure you all personally are not animals, but please, this is not one-sided. You think Armenians are blameless? How many mosks are there in Armenia? What happened to the Azeri towns in Armenia? They are abandoned and empty - and don't tell me the Azeris living there just decided to leave.
I only ask people to be realistic about this issue - that Azeri's have legitimate issues with Armenia too.
I'm sure, again this won't get posted.
I'm with you Raffi. We're definitely being taken for a ride. It might be time to get that ergate sherep that Khrimian Hayrig spoke about many years ago.
I know a fair number of Israelis and hear that they aren't happy with their model. But they find it the least of evils available to them. What I see them do, and I think it's good, is while they spend whatever time/resource they must on their systemic national problem, they don't let that deter them from spending the rest of their energy constructively. You got bad neighbors, well OK not too much you can do about that. Meantime live, love, pursue your other goals. That's a part of their model worth emulating.
To the Azeri commenter... first, thanks for the civil tone. What you're talking about - the population exchange, and the destruction of both sides heritage happened 15 years ago. Yes it was sad, yes nobody was blameless, but if I had to say one side had more blame it would have to be the side where the actual pogroms began. But that is not what this is about... what we are discussing now is different for 3 reasons... every one of them critically important.
1) This is being done FIFTEEN YEARS LATER - not in the heat of the moment.
2) This is the AZERI GOVERNMENT doing this, and must be ordered by the president himself. It is clearly not the local people, not a local authority.
3) The Jugha cemetary, unlike anything else destroyed by Armenians or Azeris is a UNIQUE AND EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION OF MASTERPIECE ARTWORK. Of course I would be sad if the Armenian Cathedral in Baku were destroyed, but I cannot begin to compare what is a "nice church" to the largest repository of a unique artform in the entire world, filled with some of the best examples anywhere, to a simple building.
What has been done, for those reasons, is so evil, and sends Armenians such a clear message about the hatred for us, that I really don't think your government can be trusted, nor spoken to, for the forseeable future...
Such a shame. So shameful.
ARMENIAN CHURCH IN BAKU TO BE USED AS LIBRARY
PanARMENIAN.Net
20.04.2006 20:49 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "I think that turning of the Armenian church situated
in Baku into a library is expedient," stated Azeri Minister of Culture
and Tourism Abulfaz Garayev. In his words, as there is "a very small
number of believers of that region, turning the Armenian church into
a library is an expedient move. I believe the church should remain
in the capital as an architectural monument. Using the building for
a scientific center is very expedient."
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