WORLD AZERBAIJANI CONGRESS AGAINST DESTRUCTION SATTARKHAN APARTMENT
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19.09.2007 12:51:58
Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend corr. S.Ilhamgizi / The World Azerbaijani
Congress (WAC) is against the destruction of the apartment where the
public man and one of the leaders of the national movement. Lived
in Sattarkhan,
The Iranian Information Agency ‘ Fars’ reported that a private company
acquired the historical building and construction work will be started
in the area.
The ‘Cultural heritage’ organization is responsible for protection
of historical monuments in Iran. The organization stated that the
tsar troops fired at historical monuments and buildings of Tabriz
revolutionists, as well as the apartment of Sattarkhan, who was
the one of the leaders of the revolution, after the Constitutional
revolution in Iran in 1905-1911.
WAC stated that destroying South Azerbaijani historical monuments by
Iran contradicts UNESCO’s Charter.
The World Azerbaijani Congress is the biggest Diaspora organization and
was founded in the US in 1997. The organization protects Azerbaijanis
human rights and struggle for independence for South Azerbaijan (
North Iran).
Akbar Alami and Mammadrza Tajaddin, MPs from Tabriz stated their
dissatisfaction at Sattarkhan’s house not being registered as a
historical monument yet. The Azerbaijani MPs also protested against
the sale of Sattarkhan’s house.
About 35mnl Azerbaijanis reside in Iran. The Constitutional movement
took place in 1906. The aim of the movement was to pass power to
the people. As a result of the movement the first Parliament and
Constitution was achieved in Iran. The Iranian Parliament was destroyed
by the Russian army in 1908, and the chairman of the Dashnak party
of Iran, Yapramkhan Mashrut, Armenian by origin, ordered the arrest
and execution of most of the activists of the revolution.