INTERNATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGISTS SHOULD BE INVOLVED IN INVESTIGATION OF MASS GRAVEYARD FOUND IN AZERBAIJANI NORTHERN DISTRICT: SPEAKER OF AZERBAIJANI PARLIAMENT
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04.07.08 14:38
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, Baku, 4 July Trend News / I.Alizade / Ogtay Asadov, the
speaker of the Azerbaijani Parliament, considers that international
archaeologists should be involved in the investigation of mass
graveyard, discovered in Guba, the Azerbaijani Northern District.
"Graveyard discovered in Guba District is a genocide act which should
be demonstrated to the international community. Unfortunately, so
far, only local historians and archaeologists have been engaged in
the investigation into this matter," the speaker of the Azerbaijani
Parliament said at the parliamentary meeting.
Mass graveyard was discovered during the construction of the stadium
in Guba District in mid-April 2007. Experts said that disorderly
buried bodies and other factors proved for the genocide realized by
Armenians in 1918. So far, 190 human remains have been found.
The speaker said that he visited graveyard in Guba together with
the visiting Luis Maria De Puig, the President of the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe on 3 July.
"We both were horrified from what we witnessed. I regret that
ambassadors, working in Azerbaijan, do not visit this graveyard when
they come to Guba District," the speaker said.
Guba District is located 170km north of the capital Baku.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
