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    HISTORIAN: AS MANY AS 27,000 ARMENIAN CULTURE MONUMENTS DEMOLISHED IN NAKHIJEVAN IN 1998-2006

    by David Stepanyan

    Wednesday, April 1, 13:49

    As many as 27,000 Armenian culture monuments were demolished in
    Nakhijevan in 1998-2006, Argam Ayvazyan, Armenian historian and expert
    in cultural studies, has told ArmInfo.

    "It is noteworthy that before 1998 the process of demolition of
    Armenian churches, chapels, khachkars and other cultural and historical
    monuments was going on relatively slowly. Nearly 30 monuments were
    destroyed in the Nakhijevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
    during the Soviet years," he says.

    Ayvazyan points out that during the years of the Karabakh war, not
    a single monument of culture was demolished in Nakhijevan up to the
    year 1998. The process intensified starting from 1998. "The latest
    act of that barbaric policy was the demolition of the khachkars
    (cross-stones) in the Old Jugha cemetery in 2005- 2006", he says.

    An honored man of culture of Armenia, Argam A. Ayvazyan is author of
    200 works. He has studied the historical monuments of Nakhijevan for
    45 years.

    http://www.arminfo.am/index.cfm?objectid=64E6D760-D854-11E4-BB3F0EB7C0D21663


    From: Baghdasarian
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