COMPARE THE ARMENIAN CEMETERY OF JUGHA AND THE AZERBAIJANI CEMETERY OF AGDAM
Alisa Gevorgyan

"Radiolur"
20.11.2009 17:25

"Armenians are barbarously destroying Garaji cemetery in Azerbaijan’s
occupied Agdam region," representative of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Azerbaijan declared a few days ago.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic has
already issued a statement on this occasion, saying that" Polukhov’s
statements can be evaluated as a regular attempt to cast a shade on
the Nagorno Karabakh Republic and draw the international community’s
attention away from the vandalism organized systematically by the
Baku authorities, in particular, the destruction of the primarily
Armenian Narimanov cemetery in Baku on the pretext of building a
highway, or the recent destruction of khachkars (cross stones) in
Old Jugha in Nakhichevan where no military activities took place."

According to Samvel Karapetyan, head of Research on Armenian
Architecture NGO, this is a usual policy of Azerbaijan to conceal
its own barbarity and crimes. Maybe, in Azerbaijan’s logic, the
loss of two damaged gravestones of a Soviet-times cemetery can be
considered barbarity as compared to the destruction of the thousands
of crossstones of the millennia-old Jugha cemetery.

According to the same Azerbaijani logic, Armenians that have liberated
their own motherland are called occupants.

The false alarm of our neighbors made Samvel Karapetyan recall the
real barbarities not only in Nakhijevan, but also in other regions
under Azerbaijani control. Because of well-known reasons, it’s nearly
impossible to find information about the Armenian monuments of those
regions, Samvel Karapetyan said.