(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 14. During
the period of occupation, the Armenians destroyed about 200 shrines
on the territory of Azerbaijan, Mubariz Gurbanli, Chairman of
Azerbaijan's State Committee on Religious Associations, said during
the "Caucasian Albania: Religious and social life" X International
conference, trend reports.
He noted that ethnic cleansing and genocide were
carried out on the territories of Azerbaijan that were under
Armenian occupation for almost 30 years. Gurbanli added that more
than 60 mosques and about 200 shrines were desecrated and
destroyed; Albanian Christian churches were either falsified,
Gregorianized, or wrecked. In addition, an Orthodox church in the
Khojavend district was looted and ruined by the Armenians.
"The purpose of destroying or appropriating cultural
heritage on the historical lands of Azerbaijan was also to break
the connection of these territories with Azerbaijanis and provide
false information to the world community," the chairman of the
committee said.
He went on to add that by committing these crimes, the
Armenian side grossly violated the requirements of the 1954 Hague
Convention "On the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of
Armed Conflict", the 1992 European Convention "On the Protection of
Archaeological Heritage" and the 1972 UNESCO Convention "On the
Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage".
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