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By Trend
Mentioning the destruction of monuments, shrines, and cemeteries
belonging to the Azerbaijani people, and the unprecedented acts of
vandalism committed by Armenia during Occupation of Azerbaijani
lands in the US State Department's report on religious freedom is
commendable, Azerbaijani Political expert Elchin Mirzabayli told
Trend .
According to Mirzabayli, nevertheless, the facts contained in
the report cover only a small part of the monuments which were
desecrated or destroyed during the occupation.
“Even the ruins of Carthage are incomparable with the ruins in
the territories of Azerbaijan liberated from the Armenian
occupation [in the 2020 second Karabakh war], because Armenia
didn't preserve anything in these territories. To erase traces of
Azerbaijani heritage from these lands, it resorted to unprecedented
acts of vandalism,” he said.
According to the expert, some people while talking about
vandalism in the modern era remember blowup of a giant statue of
Buddha by the Taliban militants in 2001, or destruction of the
archaeological sites of Nimrud, Hatra, and the cultural samples of
the Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian cultures by the ISIS
terrorist group in Mosul.
“The manifestations of Armenian vandalism are even more
ruthless, because it destroys everything in its path - not only
cultural monuments, but also mosques, other shrines, cemeteries,
residential buildings, all infrastructure, and social facilities,”
Mirzabayli noted.
He also noted that along with the destruction of historical,
cultural and religious monuments on the Azerbaijani lands during
their occupation, Armenia also destroyed Azerbaijani monuments on
its territory, trying to erase the traces of the Azerbaijani people
there.
'At the same time, the facts of Armenian vandalism on
Azerbaijani lands, which shocked all civilized mankind and were
reflected in the report of the US State Department, haven't
attracted the attention of UNESCO. The Azerbaijani side's appeals
to this organization, made even before the second Karabakh war,
remain without response,' he said.
“Lack of reaction to the facts of Armenian vandalism by the
international organization engaged in the preservation of the
heritage belonging to humanity, creates the background for new
precedents of the destruction of heritage belonging to certain
nations and religious confessions,' Mirzabayli said.
Mirzabeyli also said that unfortunately, the US State
Department's report does not mention the destruction of monuments
belonging to the historical, cultural and spiritual heritage of
Azerbaijanis in present-day Armenia, and the destruction of not
only mosques, but also Christian monuments not belonging to
Armenians or the Gregorian Church.
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