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Surik Truzyan, head of Nor Khachakap community has got a videotape revealing the brutal acts of the Azeris while destroying his ancestors’ tombs.

Surik Truzyan is from Koushi, Dashkistan region. He was forcibly displaced with his compatriots 17 years ago and resettled in the village of Nor Khachakap which was inhabited by Azeris and was called Saral till 1988. It is noteworthy that contrary to their vandalism, the Azeri tombs have been cleaned and restored in Armenia. (You may see the reconstructed Azeri tomb in the picture)

“The Azeris treated our tombs very badly; they completely destroyed them and broke the khachkars,” says 74-year-old Ashot Kyalabyan.

The Armenia and Azeri tombs are side by side in Nor Khachakap. The Azeri tombs of the village have been restored this year on the initiative of the Vanadzor office of the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly. Regardless of the fact that the Azeris destroyed their ancestors’ tombs the residents of the village treat it normally.

Arthur Sakunts, head of the Vanadzor office, claims that the tomb of his ancestors which is in the territory of Azerbaijan, in the village of Vernishen, Shahoumyan Region, is far from being in a proper state. But in his opinion the conflict has aroused so many problems and caused so much trouble that new demolitions are irrelevant. “Humanity is not simply a term; it also implies respect and good treatment to the memory of your rival.”

Asked whether there is any probability that the Armenian tombs may be reconstructed in Azerbaijan like the Azeri tombs in Armenia, Arzu Abdulajev, head of the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly in Azerbaijan, answered that he had no notion of the state of the Armenian tombs in Azerbaijan as they mainly worked in Baku and added, “It will cause no more trouble as we take measures on this score.” By the way, an Azeri journalist who was in Armenian in summer noted that Armenian tombs may hardly be reconstructed in Azerbaijan.

Nine hundred USD was spent on the reconstruction of the Azeri tombs which lasted five months.

By the way, the RA Government allocated 2 million 308 thousand AMD to find the places of the Azeri tombs and cultural monuments in the territories of Armenia and Karabakh and to take their photos.

And what work is being done by the above-mentioned sum allocated by the government? The press service of the Ministry of Culture informed us that they are implementing some work but they didn’t go into details.

According to the data of the Azeri media, the Azeris, formerly living in the territory of Armenia, handed applications to the European Court of Human Rights with the request to compensate their real estate of 20 milliard USD left in Armenia. By the way, the Azeri media notes that Armenians have ruined all the Azeri tombs in Armenia.

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