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    Anti-Armenian Vandalism Raises Tensions in Southern Russian

    Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, DC
    Aug 3 2005

    (August 3, 2005)

    Recent incidents of vandalism targeting ethnic Armenians in Russia's
    Northern Caucasus have raised inter-ethnic tensions, according to
    separate reports by the Regnum news agency. The latest incident took
    place on July 29, 2005. According to a Regnum report the next day,
    29 gravestones in the cemetery of Verkhny Yurt (Krasnodar region) were
    toppled and defaced. Most of the gravestones marked the final resting
    places of ethnic Armenians. Local police believe the vandalism was the
    work of a mentally ill person, and point to the words "schizophrenia"
    painted on many of the gravestones. The local Armenian community,
    however, sees the incident as an act of ethnic hatred and are demanding
    that police treat it as such.

    Considering the fact that on July 16, an Armenian church was burned
    down by arsonists in the city of Budyonnovsk, according to a July
    19 Regnum report, the attitude of local Armenians to the cemetery
    vandalism is understandable.
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