Category: Cultural genocide

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Conference “UN responsibility for the protection of the cultural heritage of ancient peoples from cultural genocide”

in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/conf-2-11-2021/ On November 2-3, 2021, an international online conference “The UN responsibility for the protection of the cultural heritage of ancient peoples from cultural genocide” was held in St. Petersburg, Russia. Three co-organizers were from the Republic of Artsakh, the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation: the Ministry of education, science, culture and sports of the Republic of Artsakh, public organization of sociological and political science initiatives “Khachmeruk” (“Crossroad”), Public Institute of political and social research of the Black Sea-Caspian Sea region named after V.B. Artsruni. The conference was dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the […]

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Armen T. Marsoobian. Genocide by Other Means: The Centrality of Cultural Destruction to the Erasure of a People

in Russian – A report by Armen T. Marsoobian at the International conference “UN responsibility for the protection of the cultural heritage of ancient peoples from cultural genocide” on November 2-3, 2021. Conference materials – https://aga-tribunal.info/conf-2-11-2021-en/

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PACE on cultural heritage damage and hate speech from Azerbaijan, September 27, 2021

in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/pace-27-9-2021/ Source: Resolution 2391 (2021) by Parliament Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted on 27 September 2021 (24th sitting) upon rapport by Mr. Paul Gavan https://aga-tribunal.info/en/pace-27-9-2021-en/

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Lusine Karakhanyan: Azerbaijan continues to destroy and appropriate Armenian cultural heritage sites of world significance

in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/karakhanyan-14-10-2021/ in Armenian – https://aga-tribunal.info/hy/karakhanyan-14-10-2021-hy/ Source: Armenpress, October 14, 2021 Translated by AGA-Tribunal.info. Azerbaijan does not even value its culture, this country did not agree to exchange the paintings of Azerbaijani artists who remained on the Armenian side after the first Artsakh war for Armenian cultural values remaining in the occupied territories.

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How to save thousands of Armenian monuments in the territories of Artsakh temporarily occupied by Baku?

in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/heritage-11-10-2021/ Article “How to preserve the Armenian heritage in the territories controlled by Baku” published on October 11, 2021 in the web site of Russian information agency “Sputnik-Armenia”. Translated in English by AGA-Tribunal.info. Armenia should be quite actively involved in highlighting the problem of cultural and historical heritage in Karabakh, as well as raise the issue of the situation at all venues and through any possible structures. Moscow architect, professor of the International Academy of Architecture Andrey Ivanov said this in an interview with reporters, commenting on the threat of the disappearance of the Armenian heritage in […]

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The historical environment of the vicinity of Stepanakert

The rich, historical and cultural environment of Stepanakert. The fact that there was life in the vicinity of Stepanakert, Armenians lived here much earlier, according to archeological materials, source data, the rich historical and cultural environment that still exists. Unfortunately, the vicinity of Stepanakert is very little studied. In 2012, 1.6 km north-west of Stepanakert, the ruins of a church / monastic complex / were found. Judging by the surrounding 12th century khachkars, the church existed in the 12th century. However, the nearby settlement and the early Christian cemetery prove that life here existed much earlier. And Krkjan, Kirkitjan (fortress-settlement […]

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Ethnic image in Artsakh in the 18th century. Lernik Hovhannisyan

After the conquest of Transcaucasia by the Russian Empire, Russia began to conduct various censuses in the Transcaucasus, which, of course, were far from complete, containing 30-40% inaccuracies.There are records that do not take into account the number of women, give the names of settlements, but do not indicate their ethnicity.In 1823,cameral statistic was performed by Colonel Yermolov and Mogilovsky, an advisor with a more technical purpose.The census was conducted in the Karabakh province, which was divided into mahallas, 23 mahallas, with a total area of ​​21340 sq. Km. With the formation of the NKR, that area was considerably reduced; […]

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Armenian historical reality of Shushi is falsificated

After the occupation of Shushi, Azerbaijan launched a state-level campaign against the city’s Armenian cultural values. In particular, the ethnic origin of historical and cultural monuments is falsified. For example, the Ghazanchetsots Church is presented as Udi, and the Kanach Zham or St. John the Baptist Church is presented as Russian Orthodox, while the same Russian archival documents suggest otherwise.The Russian church, the plan of which has been preserved, was located in a completely different place in Russian sources, was demolished by the Azerbaijanis in 1966, and a house of culture was built on the site. The article presents facts […]

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There were not mosques in Kashatagh and Karvachar regions

Recently, while in Shoushi, the President of Azerbaijan, the country’s chief forger I. Aliev, on whose instructions false rumors have been spread in the past that Armenians allegedly destroyed Azerbaijani cultural monuments by stopping at one of the local mosques, once publicly boasted that Armenians had destroyed 64 of 67 mosques in Nagorno-Karabakh. The news, which has absolutely nothing to do with reality, has also appeared in other publications that encourage the false propaganda of the Azerbaijanis.In view of the above, we have to answer the liar who turns the reality upside down, based only on the real facts. Thus, […]

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Europa Nostra and European Association of Archaeologists Call for Protection of Karabakh Cultural Heritage

in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/eu-ngo-7-7-2021/ Source: Asbarez.com, July 7, 2021. Prominent European groups the Europa Nostra and the European Association of Archaeologists have issued a joint statement regarding the need to for the protection of the integrity, authenticity, and diversity of the rich multicultural heritage in and around the area of Nagorno Karabakh.

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Concept on Cultural heritage in conflicts and crises

in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/eu-18-6-2021/ Council of the European Union on June 18, 2021 adopted a project (April 19, 2021) of a Concept on Cultural heritage in conflicts and crises. Later on June 21, 2021 it adopted also the Conclusions on EU Approach to Cultural Heritage in conflicts and crises.

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Pan-Turkism and the politics of culturocide

Recently, a number of publications have appeared aimed at forming in the Russian political public consciousness the attitude that the strategic priority for Russia is an alliance with Turkey. It is argued that the ideology and policy of pan-Turkism adopted by Erdogan’s Turkey does not pose any danger to Russia, but, on the contrary, corresponds to the interests of Moscow, which should actively use it. It is also argued that pan-Turkism is a Russian invention, invented in the General Staff of the Tsarist army purely in the interests of Russia, and the Bolsheviks became the successors of this policy of […]

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Gilles Deleuze on Artsakh and the rights of Armenians for life

Source: https://medium.com/sev-bibar/gilles-deleuze-on-artsakh-and-the-rights-of-armenians-for-life-abb26fccfa79 We present you an excerpt from French television program called “L’Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze” (“Gilles Deleuze’s alphabet book”), produced by Pierre-André Boutang in 1988–1989, consisting of an eight-hour series of interviews between Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet. In one of the interviews the French philosopher talks about Artsakh events and the rights of Armenians for life. “Take, the example of recent contemporary unrest in Armenia. What is the situation there to the best of my understanding? There is an enclave in another Soviet Republic. There is an Armenian enclave, and there is the Republic of Armenia…There is a […]

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Cultural cleansing in occupied Artsakh

Source: Lillian Avedian, Armenian Weekly, 31.03.2021 The BBC has documented the total destruction of a 19th-century Armenian church in the latest recorded incident of a systematic pattern of cultural genocide perpetrated by the Azerbaijani government against Armenian cultural heritage in the South Caucasus.  BBC correspondent Jonah Fisher traveled to the region of Jabrayil, an outlying territory of Artsakh that came under Azerbaijani control under the November 9 ceasefire agreement, to investigate the disappearance of Zoravor Surp Astvatsatsin Church (Armenian Holy Mother of God Church) in the village of Mekhakavan. Video footage from November proves that the church was intact immediately following the […]

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Foreign Ministry Spokesperson’s comment on the destruction of Zoravor Surb Astvatsatsin Church

Source: Official website of MFA RA Today, the BBC released a video documenting the demolition of the Zoravor Surb Astvatsatsin Church near the town of Mekhakavan (Jebrail), which took place after the region fell under the Azerbaijani control. The same church had already been desecrated during the recent Azerbaijani aggression against Artsakh. We strongly condemn this yet another case of a crime committed by Azerbaijan on the grounds of religious hatred. At the same time, the attempts of the Azerbaijani leadership to justify this barbarism are even more concerning, as it shows that this manifestation of vandalism was intentional in […]

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Two petitions on the web site of White House against Azerbaijan and Turkey

in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/petitions-sept-2020/ After joint Azerbaijani, Turkish and Middle East terrorist groups agression started on September 27, 2020 against Republics of Artsakh and Armenia two different Petitions were issued on the web site of the White House.

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Crimes committed by Azerbaijan against the Armenian people and humanity after 1990

in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/crimes-after-1990/ A partial List of crimes committed by Azerbaijan after 1990. Some were noted in the Statement of the group of organizations of January 12, 2020. List of crimes before the end of 1990 – here. 1991-1994 – large-scale aggression against the NKR and the border regions of the Republic of Armenia (RA). February 1992 — the killing of their own citizens and Meskhetian Turks near city Agdam when they left Khojaly along a humanitarian corridor made by Armenians.  April 1992 — atrocities and crime of genocide of Armenians in Maraga village  2004 — the heroization of Ramil […]

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Crimes committed by Azerbaijan before the end of 1990

in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/crimes-till-1990/ A partial List of crimes committed by Azerbaijan before the end of 1990. Some were noted in the Statement of the group of organizations of January 12, 2020. List of crimes after 1990 – here. 1905-1906 – participation in riots against Armenians in the Caucasus, the persecution and murder of Armenians, the seizure of their property. July 1918 – massacre and exile of Armenians in Nukhi, Aresh, Geokchay regions September 1918 – participation in the massacre of Armenians in Baku by Turkish troops, theft of their property. 1919-1920 – massacre of Armenians of Nukhi and Aresh regions 1918-1921 – armed attacks and violence […]

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“Los Angeles Times” on the barbaric crime of cultural genocide by Azerbaijan

Below is the article By Catherine Womack from “Los Angeles Times”, Nov 7, 2019.   For centuries the sacred khachkars of Djulfa stood tall along the banks of the River Aras — hulking and ornately carved 16th-century headstones, an army 10,000 strong, steadfastly guarding the world’s largest medieval Armenian cemetery. Earthquakes, war and vandalism diminished their ranks, but by the middle of the 20th century, thousands of khachkars still remained. Today, however, not a single statuesque sandstone sculpture stands at Djulfa, in the remote Nakhichevan region of Azerbaijan. Despite a 2000 UNESCO order demanding their protection, evidence published in the art journal Hyperallergic this year indicated that the monuments […]

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About genocidal policy and crimes of Azerbaijan in the Statement addressed to UN

(in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/wa_7-8-2019_/) On August 7, 2019, the Republic of Western Armenia sent a large and unprecedented Statement to the UN “On the demarcation of the border between the state of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan”. In particular, it contained information on the genocidal crimes by Azerbaijan against the Armenian people. Below are some fragments from the Appeal.

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Azerbaijan and greatest cultural genocide of 21st century

(in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/guardian_2-3-2019/) The Guardian on Armenian cross-stones Source in The Guardian – here. There is a photo of Armenian art researcher Argam Ayvazyan in 1981, next to a 14th-century khachkar in Nors, near his birthplace. Source of the article below – https://news.am/eng/news/499138.html   The 21st century’s most extensive campaign of cultural cleansing to date may not have happened in Syria, but in largely ignored part of the Transcaucasian plateau, The Guardian reported. According to a report published in the art journal Hyperallergic in February, the Azerbaijani government has, over the past 30 years, been engaging in a systematic erasure of the country’s historic […]