ArmInfo. Azerbaijan destroyed the Armenian cemetery of Ghazanchetsots in the city of Shushi in occupied Artsakh. This was reported by Caucasus Heritage Watch, citing satellite images from April 4.
"Satellite imagery dated April 4 shows that the destruction of the Ghazanchetsots cemetery in Shusha is now complete. This marks the first destruction of a cemetery since the
International Court of Justice ordered Azerbaijan to prevent and punish attacks on Armenian cultural heritage. Damage to the cemetery began in October 2023, as CHW reported in an alert on Nov 27, 2023 (see profile page, or the link to a tweet in comment). We told the story of the historic site and the threat it faced. At that point, it was not too late to stop the destruction. But by December 2023 it was almost gone.
This is the third cemetery destroyed since the 2020 ceasefire. Four others have been damaged. Bulldozing Armenian burials is an emerging feature of post-war development in Azerbaijan's Karabakh, disturbing ancestors and erasing inconvenient testimony to belonging and coexistence. " Earlier it also became known that Azerbaijan destroyed the village of Karin Tak near Shushi. In this regard, deputy director of Le Figaro magazine Jean-Christophe Buisson in particular, wrote: "This is what remains of the Armenian village of Karin Tak near Shushi, conquered by the Azerbaijanis in 2020: nothing! 500 inhabitants lived in it. Azerbaijan is erasing all traces Armenian life and civilization in Artsakh/Nagorno- Karabakh: churches, cemeteries, houses...".
Azerbaijan is freely erasing ancient Armenian cultural and spiritual sites from the face of the earth. All this is happening against the background of the tacit encouragement of the so-called international community. Days earlier, it became known about the complete destruction of the Green Church of 1818 in occupied Shushi.