MEP: Since its invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh, Baku tries to erase  thousand-year presence of Armenians in region

ArmInfo. Since its invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh, Baku tries to erase thousand-year presence of  Armenians in region. Member of the European Parliament (EP) Emmanuel Maurel wrote on his Twitter account  (X).

"Azerbaijani activists dismantled the monument to Charles Aznavour in  the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh!  Since its invasion, Baku tries to  erase the thousand-year presence of Armenians in the region. Ethnic  cleansing was followed by cultural cleansing," he wrote.

As ArmInfo previously reported, the Azerbaijani authorities  dismantled the monument to Charles Aznavour, erected on the occasion  of the 100th anniversary of his birth in 2022 and located next to the  Paul Eluard Francophonie Center in Stepanakert.

Previously, monuments to the writer Hakob Hakovyan, national  philanthropist Alek Manukyan, activist Alexander Myasnikyan, Soviet  soldiers Admiral Isakov, Anatoly Zinevich, Kristafor Ivanyan and  others were dismantled. In the park of the same name in Stepanakert,  the monument to the Hero of Artsakh Ashot Ghulyan was also  dismantled. From materials published on the Internet, we also learn  that the graves of those killed in the Artsakh Liberation War are  being vandalized.  All this is happening against the background of  the inaction of the civilized international community.