SMASHED LAMPS AND CUT DOWN TREES AT TSITSERNAKABERD GENOCIDE MEMORIAL

2010 /02/11

"I saw the smashed street lamps. When I looked hard, I realized that
next to each smashed street lamp there are stumps of newly cut down
trees." This alert was raised by Tigran Mangasaryan, the publisher
of National Geographic Traveler in Armenia.

He spends each morning in Tsitsernakaberd with his friends. For the
past few days he paid attention to the smashed lamps along the street
leading to the Genocide Memorial. "I saw dozens of stumps along the
road and a small fire trampled under feet, nothing else, neither
branches, nor chips, nor sawdust, nothing. I got the impression that
somebody cut down the trees, took them away under cloud of night
without leaving any traces. That’s why all the lamps are smashed,"
Tigran Mangasaryan said.

The photos taken by Tigran Mangasaryan distinctly display all the
traces of this crime. This material is simultaneously an alert for
the RoA Ministry of Nature Protection . We think that the Ministry of
Nature Protection represented by the State Environmental Inspectorate
must examine this case and take proper measures.