KARABAKH ETHNOGRAPHER REFUTES WORDS OF AZERBAIJANI DELEGATE TO PACE

STEPANAKERT, MAY 2. ARMINFO. “As a men engaged in study of inscriptions
on the historical and architectural monuments in Shushi and epitaphs
in the local cemeteries of 18-20th centuries, I can state with a
full responsibility that in the period under review the main part
of the population in Shushi were Armenians and Russians.” A Karabakh
ethnographer Hrachik Haroutiunyan, the author of the monograph “Shushi:
newly found ethnographic inscriptions about the history of the town”
informed ARMINFO’s correspondent to Stepanakert.

Haroutiunyan made such a statement commenting on the information of
Azerbaijani mass media that at the spring session of PACE a member of
the Azerbaijani delegation, MP Rafael Huseynov prepared and distributed
a document entitled “The state policy of Armenia aiming damaging the
gene pool of the Azerbaijani people and its historical memory.”

Huseynov says that Armenia in Shusha have destroyed all the historical
cemeteries and there is no Armenian cemetery in Nagorny Karabakh older
than 160 years. “It is nothing but a regular awkward false report made
by the Azerbaijani party. In the historical citadel of Nagorny Karabakh
– in the town of Shushi – there are several old cemeteries. That is, 4
Armenian, 1 Russia, 1 Armenian- Russian, and 1 Persian cemeteries.” The
specialists expressed desire to study Azerbaijani cemeteries as well,
but there are no old cemetery in Shushi.

He thinks that the Azerbaijani party tries to mislead the international
community, hereby stirring up inter-national strife.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress