BROCHURE – THE ANNIHILATATION OF JULFA BY AZERBAIJANI AUTHORITIES

Source
The Armenian National Committee of Cyprus
A Member of the European Armenian Federation for Justice and
Democracy

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19-06-2006

Abstracts from the Brochure

The centuries-old cultural monuments the Armenian people created
both in Nakhijevan and other territories of Historical Armenia are
of universal value.

At various periods, they were studied by different foreign scholars.

In recent years, Nakhijevan’s Azerbaijani authorities have been
perpetrating the premeditated annihilation of a wide variety of
Armenian monuments which are reminders of the Armenian presence in
the region.

In August 2005, European researcher Stephen Sim became witness to
the barbarities committed against the Armenian monuments in Nakhijevan.

The violence against the memory and history of the Armenian people
reached its climax with the total destruction of the historical
cemetery of Julfa (known as ‘Jugha’ in Armenian) located in Yernjak
District.

Julfa Cemetery used to extend over three hills on the left bank of
the river Arax.

Boasting a special place in the treasury of world heritage, this
extensive depository of spiritual and artistic monuments aroused the
admiration of both Armenian and foreign travellers and art historians
for many centuries.

French traveller Alexandre de Rhodes, who visited the cemetery in 1648,
saw 10,000 standing khachkars and ram-shaped tombstones there.

By 1904, however, their number had been reduced to 5,000.

In the brochure you can find many images of Jufra Cemetery (Past &
Present)