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    ArmenPress
    March 10 2004

    POLICE IDENTIFIES CEMETERY VANDALS

    KRASNODAR, MARCH 10, ARMENPRESS: The weekly Yerkramas, published
    by the Armenian community in the southern Russian province of
    Krasnodar, said the local police have identified a group of
    youngsters, who profaned Armenian gravestones at the Slavonic
    cemetery of the city on March 2 overnight. The weekly said the group
    was made of 8 youngsters, aged between 13 to 16. The local police
    said their parents will have to compensate the damages and restore
    the broken tombs.
    A similar act of vandalism was reported in 2002 April that was
    strongly condemned by Armenian government and leading politicians,
    who voiced their serious concern over escalating ethnic tensions in
    the southern Russia.
    On April 18, 2002 about 50 youths went on a rampage through the
    Armenian cemetery in the city of Krasnodar vandalizing gravestones
    and monuments. Though the local police announced then the arrest of
    three Russian youngsters, aged between 14 and 17, on suspicion of
    involvement in the rampage, all of them avoided any punishment.
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