Azerbaijan carved a road through historic cemetery in Shushi – Panorama

Between October 5 and November, three Azerbaijani bulldozers carved a street by an historic burial floor in Shushi, Nagorno-Karabakh, often known as the Yerevan Gate cemetery, Caucasus Heritage Watch (CHW) warned on Wednesday.

“Nestled amidst the timber are at the least 78 Armenian-inscribed tombstones relationship between 1802 and 1913. Dense forest obscures the cemetery. We used maps and publications of Shusha/i to hint its borders. It’s unclear what number of tombstones had been broken, however analysis exhibits that burials lined the realm,” CHW mentioned/

“The tombstones of men and women, younger and outdated, inform tales of kinship, occupation, religion, standing, and extra. They usually ask that the deceased could relaxation in peace.

“That is the fifth Armenian cemetery impacted since Nov 2020, after the destruction of Mets Tagher and Sghnakh, and injury to cemeteries in N. Shushi and close to Vazgenashen/Hajisamly. Growth cloaks a sluggish challenge to take away the ancestors of Shushi’s Armenian inhabitants,” the watchdog added.