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CROSS-STONES CHANGE UNESCO'S POSITION
Aysor.am
Monday,June 20
On June 15 in Paris on the photo exhibition titled Khachkar
Craftsmanship within the framework of conferences initiated by UNESCO
the exhibition attendees were embarrassed to see that the quotations
indicating the place of origin of each khachkhar (cross-stone)
were removed.
Ethnographer Hranush Kharatyan touched upon the monuments as refugees,
as she called them, stressing that UNESCO found enough force to
violate its own norms.
"The names of the regions were absent from all the cross-stones,
it was not clear whether this or that stone is from Van, and Van is
in Turkey today, from Nakhijevan, is it an Armenian, Azernbaijani
cross-stone or has another origin."
The Ethnographer reminding the cultural massacre, when in front
of the whole world the Armenian cross-stones were being destroyed,
is not being surprised anymore for the attitude of the UN towards
the refugees.
Aysor.am
Monday,June 20
On June 15 in Paris on the photo exhibition titled Khachkar
Craftsmanship within the framework of conferences initiated by UNESCO
the exhibition attendees were embarrassed to see that the quotations
indicating the place of origin of each khachkhar (cross-stone)
were removed.
Ethnographer Hranush Kharatyan touched upon the monuments as refugees,
as she called them, stressing that UNESCO found enough force to
violate its own norms.
"The names of the regions were absent from all the cross-stones,
it was not clear whether this or that stone is from Van, and Van is
in Turkey today, from Nakhijevan, is it an Armenian, Azernbaijani
cross-stone or has another origin."
The Ethnographer reminding the cultural massacre, when in front
of the whole world the Armenian cross-stones were being destroyed,
is not being surprised anymore for the attitude of the UN towards
the refugees.