tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54651405512526617952024-03-14T17:37:51.513+04:00CULTURAL GENOCIDEHere you will read about cultural genocide in general and about cultural genocide in Jugha cemetery in particular. Jugha cemetery was an armenian medieval cemetery with lots of khachkars (cross-stones).But Azerbaijan soldiers destroyed the cemetery in 2005 december. And that was an act of vandalism, that was/IS a cultural genocideCULTURAL GENOCIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00141657701950048915noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5465140551252661795.post-25102422643155186102012-01-09T20:47:00.003+04:002012-01-09T20:50:02.472+04:00Cultural Genocide In Jugha<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Azeri soldiers destroying armenian medieval cemetery in 2005.</b></div><br />
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</div>CULTURAL GENOCIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00141657701950048915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5465140551252661795.post-47823460001191103102011-04-22T13:07:00.005+05:002011-04-25T11:24:56.153+05:00Armenian Genocide by turks in 1915<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbjkVSf7aHJZXTmC0FvuBZxoGsIoQdbMieNCOEEHd90VgsosrRevs2H0vd9eWjBX77Ym83vEuuIcvVyfVyspNVw-QROtaDqf9KgVz7Mb79Tj_zQYvDRJwDtgamX01qB98i3QFYyvv2M8rk/s1600/cultural+genocide+by+azeries%252C+armenian+genocide+by+turks+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><img border="0" height="568" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbjkVSf7aHJZXTmC0FvuBZxoGsIoQdbMieNCOEEHd90VgsosrRevs2H0vd9eWjBX77Ym83vEuuIcvVyfVyspNVw-QROtaDqf9KgVz7Mb79Tj_zQYvDRJwDtgamX01qB98i3QFYyvv2M8rk/s640/cultural+genocide+by+azeries%252C+armenian+genocide+by+turks+copy.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/genocide.php"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">What is Genocide?</span></a></span><br />
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<div style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: xx-large; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041; font-size: 12px;">The term Genocide was coined by Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944, whose family was one of the victims of the Jewish Holocaust. By defining this term, Lemkin sought to describe Nazi politics of systematic murder, violence and atrocities committed against the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Combing ‘geno,’ from the Greek word for race or tribe, with ‘cide,’ from the Latin word for killing, he created the word ‘Genocide’. The following year, the International Military Tribunal at Nurenberg charged top Nazi officials with crimes against humanity. Although, the word Genocide was included in the indictment, it was as a descriptive and not as a legal term. </span></span></b></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;">On December 9, 1948, in the shadow of the Holocaust, the United Nations approved the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. </span><a href="http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/word/Convention.doc" style="color: #253041; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;">See whole text <img alt="Word file" border="0" height="16" src="http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/img/word.gif" style="cursor: move;" width="16" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;"> </span></span></b></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
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</span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;">d. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; </span></span></b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;">e. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. </span></span></b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;">After the adoption of the convention some scholars have suggested other more inclusive definitions. </span></span></b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;">In 1959 Pieter Drost, a legal scholar defined Genocide as “The deliberate destruction of physical life of individual human beings by reason of their membership of any human collectivity as such”. </span></span></b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;">Israel Charny, the Editor of the Encyclopedia of Genocide in two volumes, suggests that “Genocide in the generic sense is the mass killing of substantial numbers of human beings, when not in the course of military action against the military forces of an avowed enemy, under conditions of the essential defenselessness and helplessness of the victims”. </span></span></b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;">The UN convention does not include the killing of the members of political groups in the definition of Genocide, but many genocide scholars argued for the inclusion of that point in the definition. The prominent Genocide scholar and sociologist Leo Cuper noted that in the contemporary world, political differences are at least as significant a basis for massacre and annihilation as racial, national, ethnic or religious differences. In response to the omission of political groups from the Convention definition of Genocide, Ted Gurr and Barbara Harff have coined the new term Politicide. </span></span></b></span></div></span></span></b></td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/armenian_genocide.php"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">What is the <i>Armenian Genocide</i>?</span> </a></span></b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041;">The atrocities committed against the Armenian people of the Ottoman Empire during WWI is defined as the Armenian Genocide. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041;">Those massacres were perpetrated throughout different regions of the Ottoman Empire by the Young Turkish Government which was in power at the time. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041;">The first international reaction to the violence resulted in a joint statement by France, Russia and Great Britain, in May 1915, where the Turkish atrocities directed against the Armenian people was defined as “new crime against humanity and civilization” agreeing that the Turkish government must be punished for committing such crimes. </span><br />
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<i>Why was the Armenian Genocide perpetrated? </i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041;">When WWI erupted, the Young Turk government, hoping to save the remains of the weakened Ottoman Empire, adopted a policy of Pan Turkism – the establishment of a mega Turkish empire comprising of all Turkic-speaking peoples of the Caucasus and Central Asia extending to China, intending also to Turkify all ethnic minorities of the empire. The Armenian population became the main obstacle standing in the way of the realization of this policy. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041;">Although the decision for the deportation of all Armenians from the Western Armenia (Eastern Turkey) was adopted in late 1911, the Young Turks used WWI as a suitable opportunity for its implementation. </span><br />
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<i>How many people died in the Armenian Genocide? </i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041;">There were an estimated two million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire on the eve of WWI. Approximately one and a half million Armenians perished between 1915 and 1923. Another half million found shelter abroad. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041;">Genocide is the organized killing of a people for the express purpose of putting an end to their collective existence. Because of its scope, genocide requires central planning and an internal machinery to implement. This makes genocide the quintessential state crime, as only a government has the resources to carry out such a scheme of destruction. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041;">On 24th of April in 1915, the first phase of the</span></b></span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041;"> Armenian massacres began with the arrest and murder of nearly hundreds intellectuals, mainly from Constantinople, the capital of Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul in present day Turkey). Subsequently, Armenians worldwide commemorate the April 24th as a day that memorializes all the victims of the Armenian Genocide. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041;">The second phase of the ‘final solution’ appeared with the conscription of some 60.000 Armenian men into the general Turkish army, who were later disarmed and killed by their Turkish fellowmen. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041;">The third phase of the genocide comprised of massacres, deportations and death marches made up of women, children and the elderly into the Syrian deserts. During those marches hundreds of thousand were killed by Turkish soldiers, gendarmes and Kurdish mobs. Others died because of famine, epidemic diseases and exposure to the elements. Thousands of women and children were raped. Tens of thousands were forcibly converted to Islam. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041;">Finally, the fourth phase of the Armenian genocide appeared with the total and utter denial by the Turkish government of the mass killings and elimination of the Armenian nation on its homeland. Despite the ongoing international recognition of the Armenian genocide, Turkey has consistently fought the acceptance of the Armenian Genocide by any means, including false scholarship, propaganda campaigns, lobbying, etc. </span></b></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #253041; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;"><b><a href="http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/media.php">“Armenians Horrors Grow” - The New York Times, August 6, 1915, “Armenians are Sent to Perish in Desert” - The New York Times, August 18, 1915</a></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/media.php" style="color: #253041; font-family: arial;">“The Depopulation of Armenia” - The Independent, September 27, 1915</a><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Every year on April 24, hundreds of thousands of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenians" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">Armenians</a> gather in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsitsernakaberd">Tsisternakaberd</a> which </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">is a memorial dedicated to the victims of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">Armenian Genocide</a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">to remember the victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide that took place in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">Ottoman Empire</a> carried out by the Turkish government.</span> </b> </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Tsitsernakaberd in april 24: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">The <i>Eternal Flame</i> at the center of the 12 slabs, symbolizing the 12 lost Armenian provinces</span></span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Tsitsernakaberd : <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrant_Dink">Hrant Dink</a>, murderd by turkish nationalist in 2007</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serj_Tankian">Serj Tankian</a>: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">Yes It's GENOCIDE </span></b></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">RECOGNIZE</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;"> the Armenian Genocide of 1915</span></b><br />
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</tbody></table></div></div>CULTURAL GENOCIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00141657701950048915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5465140551252661795.post-49288503139599114042011-04-11T19:49:00.006+05:002011-04-11T19:53:45.231+05:00HIN JUGHA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">The largest <a href="http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Khachkar" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="Khachkar">khachkar</a> cemetary in the world was located in <i>Jugha</i> (located today in <a href="http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Nakhichevan" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="Nakhichevan">Nakhichevan</a>, <a href="http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Azerbaijan" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a>). The numbers were vastly reduced from the approximately 20,000 that once stood during Soviet times to a mere few thousand, and after independence,<b> </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b>Azerbaijan began to systematically destroy them</b></span>.</span> After an international outcry, the destruction was halted a few years, until <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><b>2005 when the entire cemetary was bulldozed completely clear</b>. </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Hin_Jugha" style="font-size: 13px;"><b style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Click here</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">and read more about Hin Jugha </span></span></b><br />
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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BY AZERBEIJAN</b></span></td></tr>
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</div>CULTURAL GENOCIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00141657701950048915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5465140551252661795.post-74745749142453728462011-02-25T19:02:00.001+04:002011-02-25T19:05:16.743+04:00Armenian Genocide Museum launches website about Azerbaijani capital<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">The </span><i style="font-size: 15px;"><b>Armenian Genocide Museum</b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">-Institute has launched a unique website featuring the history and cultural life of the Armenian community in the Azeri capital.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">The new website available in three languages -Armenian, Russian and English- can be accessed at </span><a href="http://www.baku.am/" style="color: #0092a0; font-weight: 700;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">www.baku.am</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">It contains numerous photos and postcards portraying the Armenian families of Baku and several buildings belonging to Armenians, as well as the local Armenian newspapers and the one-time Armenian cultural representation in Baku. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">An article on the history of the Armenian population of Baku is also posted on the website.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Introducing the website contents at a Wednesday news conference, Hayk Demoyan, the director of the museum, referred to a special document shedding light on renowned Armenians who once lived in the town. He particularly spoke of the Armenians' notable role in the town's oil industry.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">"The initiative to create the website is a special tribute to the Armenians killed in mass pogroms," he said. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">"Our objective is to provide the Azerbaijani youth with alternative information about the history of their capital. After getting familiarized with this website, many Azeris will change their attitude to the town; they will feel the Armenians' presence when passing by every single building."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Demoyan characterized the website </span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">is a modern and civilized tool introducing the true history of Baku in an academic language. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">The website also contains documents and photos on the 1905, 1918 and 1990 Armenian pogroms in Baku, as well as the history of the Armenians deported from the country.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">It informs visitors of renowned Armenian architects who designed some of the town's grandiose buildings, including the big oil complex. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Information about the Armenian theatres and actors who played in Baku, as well as the first Armenian book which was published in the town in 1872 is also available on the website.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">"The European-style buildings designed by Armenian architects and built by the donations of Armenian businessmen continue decorating the Azerbaijani capital to the present," Demoyan said.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://tert.am/en/news/2011/02/23/baku.am/?sw"><b><i>Source</i></b></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">: <a href="http://tert.am/">tert.am</a></span></span></div>CULTURAL GENOCIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00141657701950048915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5465140551252661795.post-43964312691496186142010-12-26T12:59:00.004+04:002010-12-26T13:03:38.287+04:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIhArvEvo_JqEOT0MVqYJvH7l8SguVgSaXkhUhovu34J6Alfs_8__5xAqfZO5Y83hL30Tz2NuLlSv2MRLagJcI-QDmQq8FG2qMuiyKi7h-aumtfRPHZTRoDBfKM4CD79BGjktlbH8j16pY/s1600/armenian+genocide-ottoman-missing-history.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIhArvEvo_JqEOT0MVqYJvH7l8SguVgSaXkhUhovu34J6Alfs_8__5xAqfZO5Y83hL30Tz2NuLlSv2MRLagJcI-QDmQq8FG2qMuiyKi7h-aumtfRPHZTRoDBfKM4CD79BGjktlbH8j16pY/s1600/armenian+genocide-ottoman-missing-history.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1915</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Complete The Ottoman Empire History,</span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">RECOGNIZE The ARMENIAN GENOCIDE of 1915</span></b></td></tr>
</tbody></table>CULTURAL GENOCIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00141657701950048915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5465140551252661795.post-59957700194684078182010-12-18T19:28:00.005+04:002010-12-26T13:04:19.503+04:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9eKKvck23gouSHNwqvyDA7DpikzGNlcnQVfOCAUVu681rON6ci9ug71_japUeM_arAfRayq7bt1Jh7nXpLYVNm0F1YCBWeZ2ewxzRq115p979s1vAQGJyD8kXibcVS-Cg43sLY6QpnaAy/s1600/cultural+genocide+by+azeries%252C+armenian+genocide+by+turks+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="568" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9eKKvck23gouSHNwqvyDA7DpikzGNlcnQVfOCAUVu681rON6ci9ug71_japUeM_arAfRayq7bt1Jh7nXpLYVNm0F1YCBWeZ2ewxzRq115p979s1vAQGJyD8kXibcVS-Cg43sLY6QpnaAy/s640/cultural+genocide+by+azeries%252C+armenian+genocide+by+turks+copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">G E N O C I D E</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">OF ARMENIANS </span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">AND </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> ARMENIAN CULTURE</span></b></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>CULTURAL GENOCIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00141657701950048915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5465140551252661795.post-54150633422887967062010-12-17T22:24:00.001+04:002010-12-17T22:24:31.451+04:00About Cultural Genocide. What is it?<div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b>Cultural genocide </b>is a term used to describe the <b>deliberate destruction of the cultural heritage of a people or nation for political, military, religious, ideological, ethnical, or racial reasons.</b></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Relevance to International Law</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">As early as 1933, <b>Raphael Lemkin</b> proposed a cultural component to genocide, which he called "vandalism".[1] However, the drafters of the 1948 Genocide Convention dropped that concept from their consideration.[2] The legal definition of genocide was confined to acts of physical or biological destruction with intent to destroy a racial, religious, ethnic or national group as such.[3]</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Article 7 of the United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (26 August 1994)[4] uses the phrase "<b>cultural genocide</b>" but does not define what it means. The complete article reads as follows:</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Indigenous peoples have the collective and individual right not to be subjected to ethnocide and cultural genocide, including prevention of and redress for:</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">(a) Any action which has the aim or effect of depriving them of their integrity as distinct peoples, or of their cultural values or ethnic identities;<br />
(b) Any action which has the aim or effect of dispossessing them of their lands, territories or resources;<br />
(c) Any form of population transfer which has the aim or effect of violating or undermining any of their rights;<br />
(d) Any form of assimilation or integration by other cultures or ways of life imposed on them by legislative, administrative or other measures;<br />
(e) Any form of propaganda directed against them.</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It should be noted that this declaration is only a draft. Were it to pass, it would be a "soft law" instrument and would not present binding legal obligations on UN parties.</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Despite its lack of legal currency, the term has acquired rhetorical value as a phrase that is used to protest against the destruction of cultural heritage. It is also often misused as a catchphrase to condemn any destruction the user of the phrase disapproves of, without regard for the criterion of intent to destroy an affected group as such.</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Examples of the Term's Usage</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Cultural advocates have leveled charges of "cultural genocide" in connection with various events:</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">* As part of a wider effort to destroy the Polish culture, the Germans during the Second World War closed or destroyed universities, high schools, museums, libraries, and scientific laboratories, and demolished hundreds of monuments to national heroes as a form of cultural genocide. To prevent the birth of a new generation of educated Poles, German officials decreed that the schooling of Polish children should end with elementary education. In a May 1940 memorandum, Heinrich Himmler wrote: "The sole goal of this schooling is to teach them simple arithmetic, nothing above the number 500; writing one's name; and the doctrine that it is divine law to obey the Germans. I do not think that reading is desirable." These efforts well along with general massacres of Polish intelligentsia, such as at Piaśnica Wielka where 12,000 intelligentsia were killed.</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">* In 2007, a Canadian Member of Parliament criticized the Ministry of Indian Affairs' destruction of documents regarding the treatment of First Nations members as "cultural genocide."[5]</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">* <b>The destruction by Azerbaijan of thousands of medieval Armenian gravestones at a cemetery-site in Julfa, and Azerbaijan's subsequent denial that the site had ever existed, has been widely written about as being an example of cultural genocide.</b>[6][7]</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">* <b>When Turkey's Minister of Cultural Affairs opened the Aghtamar church in eastern Anatolia as a museum, critics objected to the use of its Turkified name, seeing in it a denial of the region's Armenian heritage and as a sort of "cultural genocide".</b>[8]<br />
<a name='more'></a></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">* Some scholars have discussed whether "cultural genocide" properly describes Japan's suppression of Korean language, traditions, and names, and the teaching of Korean history during the Japanese occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945.[9]</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">* Some right-wing activists have applied the term to what they see as a downfall of Western civilization due to liberal immigration policies, diversity, and multiculturism.[10][11]</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">* In March 2008 the <b>Dalai Lama</b> accused China of practising cultural genocide against the peoples of Tibet.[12]</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">* In South Africa, the Afrikaner community has expressed dismay towards the ANC government's stance on Afrikaner cultures. A particular thorny issue is education, the government favours a dual-medium language system, english-Afrikaans institutions rather than single-medium Afrikaans institutions. The argument of many Afrikaners is that English will eventually dominate and Afrikaans will lose relevance in these respective establishments. Another controversial issue is the renaming of places, streets and monuments in South Africa. In many cases, boer general names are replaced by those of ANC freedom fighters. Similarly the english-speaking white community is affected. Recently, Jan Smuts international airport reverted to becoming Or Thambo international airport. There are also plans to rename Grahamstown (regarded by many as the heartland of anglo-African culture in South Africa) with an indigenous African name.</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;"><a href="http://agonist.org/quiet_bill/20080418/about_cultural_genocide">Source:</a></div>CULTURAL GENOCIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00141657701950048915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5465140551252661795.post-13446561136367524782010-12-16T18:23:00.003+04:002010-12-16T18:46:06.180+04:00"Azerbaijan: Vandalism as usual" "Азербайджан: вандализм как всегда"<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b>The Armenian Genocide Museum Institute</b> has published the illustrated book “<b>Azerbaijan: Vandalism as usual</b>” by <i><b><a href="http://panorama.am/en/society/2010/12/10/demoyan-book-jugha/?sw">Hayk Demoyan</a></b></i>, which describes the barbaric demolition of the <b>Armenian cemetery in Old Jugha</b> in December 2005 implemented by the Azerbaijan army, Genocide Institute-Museum web site reports.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmpnQVN9pZaqJhXyEkhqfLRb2RMKcY9QbKMtaY4HSCryq5qfLXHA3Wql7p8K4Kv1mw6-kpetcSGnYbE_Vq0pTtc_uFZ2uGUyjEZXIpzHufXc8rxR7vlStP9O8RLUmy7kwoQWHHGZNuder3/s1600/hayk+demoyan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmpnQVN9pZaqJhXyEkhqfLRb2RMKcY9QbKMtaY4HSCryq5qfLXHA3Wql7p8K4Kv1mw6-kpetcSGnYbE_Vq0pTtc_uFZ2uGUyjEZXIpzHufXc8rxR7vlStP9O8RLUmy7kwoQWHHGZNuder3/s320/hayk+demoyan.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hayk Demoyan<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute in Yerevan</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>In December 2005 the<b> soldiers and officers of the Azerbaijan army entirely demolished thousands of unique cross-tones and tombstones in the Armenian cemetary of Old Jugha </b>completing the state policy of destroying the Armenian Christian heritage in Nakhichevan and Azerbaijan territories within the last two decades.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">During these vandalistic activities the <b>Armenian medieval cross-tones and tombstones of Old Jugha </b>were turned into mass and thrown into Arax River. At present the shooting-range has been constructed on the territory of the cemetary.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Regardless of the existing numerous photographic and video undeniable evidence and proof, up to date some international organizations, including <b>UNESCO, have not appropriately evaluated the vandalistic activities which were planned and realized on behalf of the Republic of Azerbaijan.</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right;"><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px;"><b style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://panorama.am/en/society/2010/12/10/demoyan-book-jugha/?sw">Source:</a></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 18px;"><b>Азербайджан стал проблемой для всего мира</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 18px;"><b><br />
</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"></span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Если такое государство как </span>Азербайджан отрицает то, что доказано многочисленными свидетельствами, фотографиями и видеозaписями, то это не только проблема Армении и Азербайджана, а также проблема всего мира.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Газета пишет, что такое мнение выразил директор Музея-института Геноцида армян </span>Айк Демоян<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">, одновременно сообщив, что именно это послужило основанием для публикации его иллюстрированной книги «</span>Азербайджан: вандализм как всегда<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">» на английском языке. В книге описывается </span>варварское уничтожение армянского кладбища Старой Джуги руками азербайджанской армии в декабре 2005 года.</b></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><b>«От Азербайджана можно ожидать все: такая страна может даже спровоцировать мировую войну. В первый раз я коснулся этой проблемы в 2005 году, через 20 дней после этого случая, однако сегодня прошло 5 лет, и Азербайджан еще не получил соответствующего ответа», - сказал Демоян, подчеркнув, что данный шаг стал большим ударом для пропаганды Азербайджана. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Несмотря на наличие фотографий, многочисленные записи неоспоримых свидетельств и доказательств, </span>по сей день ни одна международная организация, в том числе и ЮНЕСКО, не дали соответствующих оценок действиям Азербайджана,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> организованных и осуществленных на государственном уровне.</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
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</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">On the 60th anniversary of the foundation of Azerbaijan’s Academy of Sciences on 14 December 2005, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev issued a call for his country’s scholars and academic institutions to “prove” to the international community the “lack” of the Artsakh (Karabagh) Armenians’ historical rights to the territory of Mountainous Karabagh and to substantiate his thesis that “being guests and appearing in Karabagh only in the 1870s, the Armenians have no historical rights over the territory of Mountainous Karabagh.”</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If, in the case of Artsakh, these “scholars,” who have become complicit in the large-scale propaganda projects generously subsidized by the Azerbaijani president, were compelled to accomplish their “task” by merely falsifying history in foreign languages—since the Artsakh Armenians had “cut the leg” of the genocidal Azerbaijani state—in the case of the Armenian cultural heritage preserved in Nakhichevan this legacy was a slap in the face to Aliyev’s false historiography and was making the millions of potential petrodollars null and void. Thus, the army of the aggressor state was mobilized to execute that despicable objective, resulting in the destruction of the centuries-old cross-stones, “killed” one by one, and a military facility was constructed in its place, on the very hallowed ground where the cemetery had once stood for centuries.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b>By this action, the Azerbaijani leadership has reconfirmed that the Azerbaijani state only continues to be a threat, not solely to the Armenians, but also a threat to world civilization, and that not only the Armenians, but their cemeteries and their history have become persona non grata for Azerbaijan.</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Since 2007, and on numerous occasions since then, the Heritage party and its leader Raffi K. Hovannisian, along with Heritage party Members of Parliament Zaruhi Postanjyan, Larisa Alaverdyan and Stiopa Safaryan have consistently spoken out against this crime committed in Old Jugha before the parliamentary assemblies of the PACE, OSCE and NATO, and before other international platforms, and also to the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, insisting that a corresponding international fact-finding group must be sent to that region.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If that had been a Semitic or any other denominational or religious cemetery, the world would have been duly outraged, and at every forum or assembly this issue would have been on the agenda. This state-driven terrorism, however, was not only never discussed within international structures and simply condemned, but since 2007, Azerbaijan has been repeatedly hindering and restricting PACE and even UNESCO rapporteurs’ access to Nakhichevan.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Once and for all, the world needs to say </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">NO</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> to all states that commit and then deny human, national, and cultural genocides. The Azerbaijani state and its leadership must be held accountable, not solely for its genocide committed against the Armenians of Azerbaijan and Artsakh, but also for the cultural genocide committed against an entire civilization.</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And the authorities and corresponding state bodies of the Republic of Armenia must see to it that international justice and international law are applied equitably and, inter alia, are enforced in the name of preserving the Armenian cultural heritage.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">So that the human, national, and cultural genocides committed against the Armenian people may never again be repeated, the international community, including Armenia, must immediately recognize the Republic of Mountainous Karabagh, its sovereignty and territorial integrity. The return of Nakhichevan home to its native Armenian patrimony must follow.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And the foundation and anchor for all this is a strong, just, and rightful Republic of Armenia.</div><div><a href="http://tert.am/en/news/2010/12/15/jugha/?sw"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Source:</span></a></div>CULTURAL GENOCIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00141657701950048915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5465140551252661795.post-60635053475880941392010-12-11T18:36:00.008+04:002010-12-11T23:23:08.263+04:00UNESCO Must Hold Azerbaijan Accountable for Destruction<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"><b style="text-decoration: none;"></b></span><br />
<div style="color: #444444; display: inline !important; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;"><div style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><em><b>NoThingfjord</b></em>, a Turkish blog, <a href="http://nothingfjord.blogspot.com/2008/12/djulfa.html" style="color: #d3221e; text-decoration: none;">writes</a>:</span></i></span></b></div></div><blockquote><blockquote style="display: inline !important;"><div style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">…<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #cccccc; color: purple;">This [is] not only a crime against Armenian culture, but against our </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #cccccc; color: purple;">collective cultural heritage as humankind. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #cccccc; color: red;">Don’t let it go unnoticed.</span></span></span></b></span></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #cccccc; color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"><b style="text-decoration: none;"><i><a href="http://shr.aaas.org/geotech/azerbaijan/azerbaijan.shtml" style="text-decoration: none;">Satellite data analyzed by the American Association for the </a></i></b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #cccccc; color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"><b style="text-decoration: none;"><i><a href="http://shr.aaas.org/geotech/azerbaijan/azerbaijan.shtml" style="text-decoration: none;">Advancement of Science</a></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">confirm the complete destruction of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 22px;">the medieval Djulfa cemetery in Azerbaijan. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Tell </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">UNESCO</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> to stop adding Azerbaijani monuments to the World Heritage List until Baku acknowledges and punishes the vandalism at Djulfa. </span></span><br />
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</div>CULTURAL GENOCIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00141657701950048915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5465140551252661795.post-53435189543227256362010-12-10T10:51:00.000+04:002010-12-10T10:51:16.650+04:00World’s largest body of scientists confirms destruction of Armenian khachkars in Nakhijevan<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The world’s largest body of scientists, the <b><i>American Association for the Advancement of Science</i></b>, just released satellite image comparison and analysis confirming the complete destruction of the ancient <i>Djulfa cemetery</i>, located in an historic Armenian exclave currently occupied by Azerbaijan, Asbarez reported.</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">”A high-resolution satellite image of a medieval Armenian cemetery in Azerbaijan taken in September 2003 shows hundreds of khachkars, intricate 15th and 16th century burial monuments. In a satellite image from May 2009, however, the khachkars are missing, suggesting that they were either destroyed or removed. A comparison of the images by analysts from the AAAS <b><i>Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project</i></b> found evidence of significant destruction and changes in the grade of the cemetery’s terrain. The image from September 2003 shows rocky and uneven terrain, as well as shadows cast by the khachkars, while the May 2009 image shows a much flatter landscape and the khachkars’ absence,” the AAAS conclusion reads.</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Five years ago this month, more than 100 uniformed Azerbaijanis were caught on tape destroying the burial monuments of the medieval Djulfa cemetery, founded in the Armenian province of Nakhichevan during the 9th century and thriving as late as the early 1600s. The soldiers were smashing Armenian monuments with sledgehammers, using a crane to remove some of the largest monuments from the ground, breaking the stones into small pieces, and dumping them into the River Araxes by a large truck.</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Overall, an estimated 3,000 khachkars, or intricately carved burial monuments, the craftsmanship of which is a UNESCO Intangible Heritage Tradition, were erased from the face of the earth.</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Azerbaijan’s President called the destruction report an “absolute lie,” and has maintained that official denial ever since.</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;">This movie clip, dated December 14-16, 2005, shows</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;"><b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">how Azerbaijani </span></b></span><br />
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</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a result of the implemented Soviet policy, Nakhichevan was at last depleted </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of its entire Armenian population. The clip confirms firmly the fact that the organiser of this cultural genocide is none other than the Azerbaijani government. Obviously, Azerbaijan is firmly determined to prevent “another Karabakh” by erasing the slightest indication of Armenian existence in Nakhichevan. The living Armenians have since long time ago forced to leave the region, but apparently there is also a fear of the dead and buried Armenians and their cries beyond the grave.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 13px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nakhichevan</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> is an exclave which belongs to Azerbaijan but Armenia’s territory separates them apart. Nakhichevan borders, however, on Armenia, Turkey, and Iran. It was from this area that the Persian King Shah Abbas, during the Persian-Ottoman war, forcibly relocated about 150,000 Armenians year 1620 and resettled them in the outskirts of his capital, Isfahan.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The place for this barbarian action caught on tape is a cemetery with thousands of<i> Khatchkars</i>, “<i>Cross stones</i>”, invaluable historical and cultural monuments from the period between 15th and 16th centuries.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Several Armenian organisations and authorities, among other the Foreign Ministry, have handed in official protests to UNESCO and other international organisation, but also to the US embassy in Azerbaijan.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This action makes one to recall the recent desecrations of Jewish cemeteries in different European cities. But unlike the immediate media coverage and attention given to these criminal acts it seems that no one bothers to care about this last act of cleansing the last evidence of Armenians in Nakhichevan.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>CULTURAL GENOCIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00141657701950048915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5465140551252661795.post-10110126188797878352010-11-17T21:41:00.002+04:002010-11-18T00:17:39.598+04:00Intangible Cultural Heritage committee completes examination of nominations for UNESCO Lists<div class="content_intro" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; zoom: 1;"><h4 style="clear: both; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 1.05em !important; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">With the inscription of the Armenian cross-stones art. Symbolism and craftsmanship of Khachkars, presented by Armenia, the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage today finished the examination of 47 nominations presented by 29 countries for inscription on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. It now includes 213 inscribed elements.</h4></div><div class="news-content clearfix" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left;"><div class="bodytext" style="font-size: 1.05em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Khachkars are outdoor steles carved from stone by craftspeople in Armenia and communities in the Armenian diaspora. They act as a focal point for worship, as memorial stones and as relics facilitating communication between the secular and divine. Khachkars reach 1.5 metres in height, and have an ornamentally carved cross in the middle, resting on the symbol of a sun or wheel of eternity, accompanied by vegetative-geometric motifs, carvings of saints and animals. Khachkars are created usually using local stone and carved using chisel, die, sharp pens and hammers. The carvings are then ground using fine sand. Small breaks and rough surfaces are eliminated by plaster of clay or lime, and then painted. Once finished, the Khachkar is erected during a small religious ceremony. After being blessed and anointed, the Khachkar is believed to possess holy powers and can provide help, protection, victory, long life, remembrance and mediation towards salvation of the soul. Among more than 50,000 Khachkars in Armenia, each has its own pattern, and no two are alike. Khachkar craftsmanship is transmitted through families or from master to apprentice, teaching the traditional methods and patterns, while encouraging regional distinctiveness and individual improvisation.</div><div class="bodytext" style="font-size: 1.05em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">As for the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, four new elements have been added for a total of 16.</div><div class="bodytext" style="font-size: 1.05em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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</tbody></table>CULTURAL GENOCIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00141657701950048915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5465140551252661795.post-72641627669379038392010-10-28T23:36:00.001+05:002010-11-18T00:20:46.308+04:00ST. SARGIS MONASTERY OF GAG CASTLE: THE NEXT VICTIM OF THE WIDE-SPREAD ANNIHILATION OF "ALBANIAN" MONUMENTS<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"> Years ago the Azerbaijani researchers made every possible endeavour to present the <i>Armenian historical monuments</i> located on the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan as Albanian ones: between the 1970s and 80's, Buniatov, Geyushev, Akhundov, Neymatova, Mammadova and other "scholars" published a great number of books and articles ascribing the inseparable parts of<b><i> Armenian culture</i></b> such as Gandzasar, Dadivank, Amaras, the monasteries of St. Yeghishe the Apostle, Targmanchats (of the Holy Translators), Khachakap District, Northern Artsakh, Jugha Cemetery with its several thousands of cross-stones and even St. Sargis of Gag Castle to the Albanian people.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"> Indeed, the Armenians are well-aware of the fact that these scientific falsifications pursue a purely political objective: by attributing the Christian monuments that can hardly be anyhow connected with the Azeris' stock-breeding nomadic forefathers to the Albanians, i.e. their alleged ancestors, the aforementioned scholars aim at declaring the Azerbaijani people heir to this cultural legacy. Thus, with a single stroke of the pen, a good number of <b><i>Armenian churches</i></b> and tens of thousands of cross-stones turned into Albanian kilises' ('churches' in Turkish) and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.raa.am/Gaga/Gaga_E.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><i>"khachdashes"</i></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;">('<i><b>cross-stones</b></i>' in Turkish). Nowadays the Azeris have adopted another policy: they no longer make any attempts to attribute the Armenian cultural monuments to the Albanians: instead, they are busy with annihilating the very monuments once declared Albanian.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"> With the outbreak of Artsakh's Liberation Struggle, the Azerbaijani authorities drastically changed their policy on the Armenian historical monuments: disguising their nature of vandals and barbarians, they commenced demolishing the centuries-old monuments of Armenian culture throughout the Republic of Azerbaijan. We are, unfortunately, unable to determine the actual extent of destruction: we get information only about those monuments that are somehow seen from the Armenian side of the border due to their position, while the fate of all those located far from the frontier zones remains uncertain.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"> In the recent few years, the Armenian press has periodically written about the continual demolition of the historical cemetery of Jugha that began in 1998. Despite the repeated appeals, however, the annihilation of the necropolis with its over 3,000 standing <i><b>cross-stones</b></i> was not prevented: moreover, it was consigned to final obliteration in 2002.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"> Within a few years, the unique monument complex the Armenians had created with the sweat of their brow in their historical homeland was actually levelled with the ground, that being perpetrated in broad daylight, before the entire civilized world. We learnt about what had been committed only thanks to the fact that the cemetery was situated on the left bank of the river Araks, thus being clearly seen from the opposite, i.e. Iranian bank of the river.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"> Yes, the famous <i>cemetery</i> of <i><b>Jugha</b></i> was totally annihilated, but the Azeri vandals who are armed with bulldozers still have too much "work" to do since the Armenian land where they once penetrated abounds in other monuments built throughout many centuries.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"> In fact, at present we are doomed to witness the destruction of our own culture since the Azeri Turks are diligently performing the only role they have had ever since they made themselves comfortable in our historical homeland, i.e. demolition... Faithful to their mission, the Turks are at present "working" in St. Sargis Monastery of Gag Castle in the same spirit.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br />
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<b>Location. </b>One of the most famous mediaeval Armenian monasteries, St. Sargis is situated at the top of Mount Gag dominating the environment, Ghazakh District, Republic of Azerbaijan, hardly half a kilometre east of the border of the Republic of Armenia, at an altitude of 922 metres above sea level and 420 metres from the foot of the mountain.<br />
A <b>Historical Introduction. </b>The foundation of St. Sargis Monastery is traditionally associated with <a href="http://www.raa.am/Gaga/Gaga_E.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">Mesrop Mashtots'</a> (the creator of the Armenian alphabet) activity:<br />
...the history of the church ascribes its establishment to St. Mesrop who interred part of St. Sargis' skull there: this is also attested by a church song which is as follows, " At the top of Mount Gag, stands a church blessed by St. Mesrop, the Holy Pastor..." (A sharakan (an Armenian motet) on St. Sargis, "Ardzagank," 1886, N 12, p. 161, in Armenian).<br />
The monastery is also mentioned in connection with the events of 1163:<br />
In the year 1163, <a href="http://www.raa.am/Gaga/Gaga_E.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">Yeltkuz Atabak</a> (a title conferred upon governors and commanders in the Seljuk Emirates) came to Gag Field with a large army and wanted to set ablaze Gag's St. Sargis through the divine power of which, however, a poisonous stinging snake appeared in their army... (A Collection of Historiographical Works by Priest Samuel Anetsi, Vagharshapat, 1893, p. 138, in Armenian). </span><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial AM'; font-size: 14px;"> <b>Reconstruction Carried out in the Sanctuary. </b>According to some lapidary inscriptions and archive documents, Gag's St. Sargis Monastery, which was also a famous place of pilgrimage (believers used to visit it at Easter and on New Sunday), periodically underwent renovation. In 1851 mason Yesayi Nuriniants from Tiflis completed the overhaul undertaken by <a href="http://www.raa.am/Gaga/Gaga_E.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">Agha</a> (a title used with reference to wealthy, influential people) Sargis Varshamian:<br />
...despite the great hardships, in 1851 the church was thoroughly reconstructed, being neatly built of finely-finished stone and surrounded by ramparts, with a small dome as well as a vaulted covering inside and a gable roof outside. The difficult road leading to the sanctuary was paved and expanded so that people could visit it safely, without any inconveniences. (National Archives of Armenia, fund 56, list 1, file 3735, p. 1, in Armenian).<br />
The renovation expenses came up to 2,210 rubles 23 kopecks, 736 rubles having been donated by pilgrims.<br />
<b>The Lapidary Inscriptions of the Monastery. </b>The lapidary inscriptions of the monastery which date back to the period between the 13th and 19th centuries are of great historical value and importance. In spite of this, however, all the well-known Armenian specialists engaged in collecting the Armenian lapidary inscriptions of the region ignored this fact, never even bothering to copy, decipher and publish them. It was only the "Ardzagank" correspondent who published 5 inscriptions in that atmosphere of indifference: during our visit to the monastery in 1986, only one of them could be seen together with some letters constituting the only remnants of another deliberately scraped off.<br />
1. Carved on the vestibule facade added later and completely scraped off in 1986:<br />
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Under the reign of Georgian king Georgi...<br />
2. Incised on the entrance facade of the large chapel (although obliterated by 1986, it had, fortunately, been previously deciphered):<br />
This sanctuary, which stands in perpetual memory of all our nation, should be treasured forever by the coming generations. I was all by myself while carrying out the reconstruction of the church that had been lying in a dilapidated state for a long time. Without anybody's support, I had a magnificent gilded cross erected on top of its dome in memory of my parents, children and me. On Saturday and Sunday a divine service was held in commemoration of my family. After I consign my soul to God, my own memory should be perpetuated within the walls of this sanctuary. May those who hinder this be cursed by the Lord and share Judas' fate. Amen.<br />
<i><span style="color: #000099;">Note: Presumably, the inscription dates back to the period between the 13th and 14th centuries.<br />
3. Engraved on the left side of the small chapel (obliterated by 1986):In the year 1332, I, Jvansher, built an apse and erected a cross in memory of... May those who ruin it atone for my own sins and may they stand before the Divine Judgement on the Doomsday. </span></i><br />
4. Carved on the north-eastern facade of the vestibule (obliterated by 1986):By the Lord's will in the year 1338, Grigor, Hakob and I, Khacheres, erected the Holy Cross in perpetuation of our parents' and our memory. May believers remember us in their prayers.<br />
<i><span style="color: #000099;">Note: The publisher made certain minor errors while deciphering the inscription. </span></i><br />
5. The tympanum of the church entrance was engraved with a 7-line inscription, part of its last line written in Georgian (though it had been deliberately scraped off by the time we visited the monastery in 1986, the stone bearing it was still in its original place):<br />
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<i>St. Sargis Church was built in the year 1838 through the efforts and means of Arzuman Khachaturian Ter-Sahakiants, an inhabitant of Kot Village, Ghazakh District, in perpetuation of his parents' and children's memory...</i><br />
<span style="color: #000099;"><i>Note: Unfortunately, the "Ardzagank" correspondent issued only the initial 5 lines of the inscription which we found completely scraped off in 1986. As to the last 2 lines, they are irreversibly lost for history since they were never published.</i> </span><br />
6. Only two lines of a large Armenian inscription have been preserved on a fragment fixed in one of the church walls:<br />
...the Holy Cross ... my parents ... and me. May the believers...<br />
<i><span style="color: #000099;"> Note: : A considerable part of the first line was deliberately scraped off. </span></i><br />
7. Carved inside one of the caves in the crevices of Mount Gag:<br />
...under... in the year 1208, according to the Armenian calendar...<br />
<i><span style="color: #000099;"> Note: "Numerous caves, once parts of a large castle which used to provide shelter for troops, or vast multitudes, can be seen all over this huge mountain. Inside the two of them, the rocks were engraved with inscriptions which we were unable to read due to their old age: besides, some bigoted Turkish stock breeders generally spending winters there had damaged them out of spite. The only surviving part is the first line which reads..." ("Ardzagank," 1886, N 12, p. 162, in Armenian).</span></i><br />
The fact that the lapidary inscriptions of Gag's St. Sargis Monastery were deliberately obliterated was also attested in 1886 when the "Ardzagank" wrote:<br />
There are some other inscriptions near and to the right of the aforementioned one: they, however, are impossible to read either due to their old age or distortion by the enemy... ("Ardzagank," 1886, N 12, p. 162, in Armenian)..<br />
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<b>P. S.</b>This article was written after some soldiers doing their military service in the border area near Kot Village, <a href="http://www.raa.am/Gaga/Gaga_E.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">Tavush Marz </a>(an administrative division in the Republic of Armenia), RA, had informed us about what had been committed. At present Gag's St. Sargis, a most precious Armenian sanctuary, is being annihilated before the frontier guards' very eyes, within hardly a kilometre of our positions. </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqcMjDWa7Urekp2J9bFsOlLObUb_GLz-pYDvPRy1MdwBgtWkD9BwczeUEYYLpd2RLzdy0vgd-OSrx_EB1zI_OBBb7aA3obOe_LfGDGyEXpWQBD83aTG9hEwQuCOqWCQmBg0WyYegLZdU5N/s640/masthead.jpg" width="640" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://anca.org/yesitsgenocide"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">http://anca.org/yesitsgenocide</span></a></div>CULTURAL GENOCIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00141657701950048915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5465140551252661795.post-22015903520336583982010-10-02T15:34:00.009+05:002010-11-18T00:29:18.738+04:00Cultural Genocide<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Acts and measures undertaken to destroy any nations’ or ethnic groups’ culture is called, ‘cultural genocide’. The word ‘Genocide’ coined by Raphael Lemkin, does not only refer to the physical extermination of a national or religious group, but also its national, spiritual and cultural destruction. The concept of a cultural genocide has not yet been accepted into the 1948 UN Convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of Genocide. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Many proven facts concomitant with the massacres and deportation are witness to the fact that the Young Turk government premeditated and planed a systematic method aiming to destroy the material testimonies of the Armenian civilization. Realizing the role of the church and Christian faith within the Armenian nation, they knowingly massacred Armenian clergymen, destroyed churches, monasteries and other properties of church, alongwith thousands of medieval handwritten illuminated manuscripts. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">An Arab eye witnesses to the Armenian Genocide, Fayez el Husseyn, writes in his memoirs</span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"... After the massacres of the Armenians, the government establishedcommissions who were engaged in selling the leftover property. Armenian cultural values were sold at the cheapest prices... I once went to the church to see how the sale of these things is organized. The doors of the Armenian schools were closed. The Turks used sciene books in the bazaar for wrapping cheese, dates, sunflowers... In 1912 the Armenian patriarchy of Istanbul presented an account of the churches and monasteries in Western Armenia (Eastern Anatolia) and in the Ottoman Empire. More than 2300 were accounted for including the early unique Christian monuments of IV-V cc. Most part of them were looted, burned and destroyed by the Turks during the genocide. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The policy of destruction adopted by the Young Turks with regard to Armenian historical and cultural heritage was continued in Republican Turkey where these relics were viewed as undesirable witnesses of the Armenian presence. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">At the end of 1920s, Turkey began the process of changing the names of certain locations in Western Armenia. Presently 90% of the Armenian cities, towns and buildings in Eastern Turkey Western Armenia (Eastern Anatolia) have been Turkified. Armenian geographical sites' names have also been replaced with Turkish names. Devising a systemanic method of destruction, hundreds of architectural monuments have been destroyed and all Armenian inscriptions erased. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In 1974 UNESCO stated that after 1923, out of 913 Armenian historical monuments left in Eastern Turkey, 464 have vanished completely, 252 are in ruins, and 197 are in need of repair. Armenian architectural buildings are consistently being demolished using dynaminte and are used as a targets during Turkish military training exercises; the undamaged stones are used as construction materials. In some rural places, Armenian monasteries and churches serve as a stables, stores, clubs and in once case, even a jail. On many occasions the Turkish government converted Armenian churches into mosques. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">On June 18, 1987 the council of Europe adopted a decree wherein the 6th point mentions that: the Turkish government must pay attention to and take care to heed the language, culture and educational system of the Armenian Diaspora living in Turkey, simultaneously demanding an appropriate regard to the Armenian monuments that are situated in Turkey’s territory. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000033; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px; word-spacing: 1px;"></span>CULTURAL GENOCIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00141657701950048915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5465140551252661795.post-8950655165308397292010-08-26T16:24:00.001+05:002010-11-18T00:27:15.015+04:00Культурный геноцид в Армении, оставшейся без армян<div style="line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><i>Культурный геноцид</i>, термин, введенный во второй половине XX века, используется для обозначения преднамеренного создания социально-культурных условий для искусственного стирания национальной и культурной идентичности народа. Согласно официальным данным, составленным и представленным армянской Патриархией Константинополя турецкому правительству в 1912-1913 годах, на территории Османской империи насчитывалось более 2000 церквей и монастырей (в том числе уникальные ранние христианские памятники IV-V веков). Их большая часть была ограблена, сожжена и разрушена во время <i>Геноцида армян</i>. С прекращением этнических чисток армян политика младотурков, направленная на разрушение их культурного наследия с каждым годом набирала обороты. После массового убийства и изгнания армян турецкие власти продолжали удалять, камень за камнем, свидетельства тысячелетней армянской архитектурной и художественной истории. Большое количество памятников архитектуры были разрушены или преобразованы в мечети и караван-сараи.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Один из свидетелей армянских погромов - арабский юрист <b>Файез эль Гусейн</b> пишет в своих воспоминаниях: "После армянских погромов правительство учредило комиссии, которые занимаются продажей брошенного имущества. Армянские культурные ценности продаются по ничтожной цене... Однажды я пошел в церковь, чтобы увидеть, как осуществляется продажа этих вещей. Двери армянских школ закрыты. Научные книги используются турками на рынках для упаковки сыра, хурмы, семечек..."</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">В беседе с корреспондентом <a href="http://www.regnum.ru/" style="color: #224477; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>ИА REGNUM Новости</b></a> заместитель директора музея-института Геноцида армян <b>Седа Парсамян</b> отметила, что в настоящее время более 90% топонимов Западной Армении отуречены. Армянские географические названия заменены турецкими, запланированным образом уничтожены сотни архитектурных памятников или нивелировано их армянское происхождение.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Согласно данным ЮНЕСКО от 1974 года, после 1923 года из 913 сохранившихся армянских историко-архитектурных памятников 464 полностью уничтожены, 252 лежат в руинах, 197 нуждаются в капитальном восстановлении. Армянские архитектурные сооружения последовательно взрывались и служили в качестве мишеней во время военных учений турецкой армии, а камни использовались в качестве стройматериалов. Сегодня в некоторых сельских местностях армянские архитектурные сооружения используются в качестве хлевов и складов.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">В 6-ом пункте резолюции, принятой <a class="kwdlook" href="http://www.regnum.ru/look/c5e2f0eeefe5e9f1eae8e920efe0f0ebe0ece5edf2/" style="color: #224477; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Новости по теме 'Европейский парламент'">Европейским парламентом</a> 18-го июня 1987 года отмечено, что турецкое правительство должно обратить внимание на язык, культуру, образовательную систему живущей в Турции армянской общины, одновременно требуя надлежащего отношения к находящимся на территории Турции армянским памятникам. По словам Седы Парсамян, уничтожение или присвоение армянских культурных памятников - это продолжение турецкой политики Геноцида армян.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Однако никакие слова не могут так же наглядно, как сопоставление современных фотографий армянских святынь в Турции с уникальными фотографиями, сделанными в начале XX века, описать тот вандализм, которому подверглось армянское культурное наследие за эти годы. Представляем их на суд читателей без комментариев:</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The roughly 1500 years-old cemetery of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>Djulfa</i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">before the destruction of its c. 5000 cross stones.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: medium;">In 1998 about 800 <i><b>Katchkars</b></i> were removed, a process temporarily halted following protests from UNESCO.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><b><i><u><a href="http://www.international.icomos.org/risk/2002/azerbaijan2002photos.htm">See more </a></u></i></b>CULTURAL GENOCIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00141657701950048915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5465140551252661795.post-3008552971096371972010-08-24T23:39:00.002+05:002010-11-18T00:31:58.336+04:00Destruction of Armenian Monuments in Nakhichevan Cultural Genocide<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">The destruction of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;"><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Armenian monuments</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">in Old <i>Djulfa</i> is <b><i>cultural genocide</i></b>, Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;"><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Gegham Gharibjanian</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">stated at news conference in Yerevan </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7a7a7a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">April 5, 2006</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;"> . Laying an emphasis on the difference between Iran, the representative of an ancient civilization, and Azerbaijan he remarked that Azerbaijan keeps on the destruction of the Armenian cultural monuments on its territory. "I want to mark the fact that the Iranian authorities treat the maintenance of the monuments belonging to other nations with great responsibility," he said, reported Novosti-Armenia.</span><br />
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