THOSE GUILTY IN DESTRUCTION OF ARMENIAN GRAVES IN KRASNODAR TO BE FOUND

PanArmenian News Network
Aug 1 2005

01.08.2005 08:11

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ At their meeting Verkhny Yurt village residents
(Khosta district of the city of Sochi) decided to send official
letters to chiefs of the city administration and law-enforcement
bodies. These are intended to express indignation over the act of
vandalism taken place at the village cemetery, as well as to demand
urgent measures to catch and punish those guilty. The residents
gathered July 31 to discuss the vandalism act of destruction of
29 graves (28 Armenian graves and a Russian one), reported the
Yerkramas newspaper of Armenians of Russia. The meeting was held in
the presence of Khosta region head Igor Seleznyov, representatives
of law-enforcement bodies and leaders of Sevan Armenian community of
the city. As noted by I. Seleznyov, the investigation is under way
and law-enforcement bodies say they have a “hook” that will help to
find those guilty in acts of vandalism at the Armenian cemetery. In
his words, the city budget will compensate the material harm. It
should be reminded that July 29, 2005 reports were received by the
Khosta region section of domestic affairs from residents of Verkhny
Yurt village populated by Armenians that a large number of graves is
demolished in the cemetery 5 km away from the settlement, reported
the Yerkramas newspaper of Armenians of Russia. In the course of
examination of the cemetery 29 demolished graves were discovered
most of them being Armenians’. The word “Schizophrenia” is written
on the headstones of each of the destroyed graves. The graves were
supposedly demolished with a sledgehammer or some other heavy object.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress