Destroyed cemeteries in Karabakh: Armenians have raised a question that incriminates them

After the Second Karabakh War, the truth about the Armenian occupation fully came to light, with all its shocking details. The misanthropic principles on which the Armenian statehood and the Armenian national idea are built have long been well known. But the world did not want to believe that the "most Christian" nation was capable of behaving so far from Christian values.

The occupied territories were inaccessible for collecting facts. After the liberation, everything that the occupiers tried to hide became clear of the facts of unprecedented vandalism, blasphemy, and cultural genocide. The aggressor not only left no stone unturned from settlements and cultural and historical monuments, but also desecrated graves and sanctuaries.

There are topics that it is better for the Armenian side not to raise - it is more expensive for themselves. Much has been said about the destruction of Azerbaijani cemeteries by Armenians in the previously occupied territories and in the lands of Armenia "cleared" of Azerbaijanis. Today we decided to remind you about this once again, because Armenian bloggers are spreading a video about the "desecration of the military pantheon" in Khankendi on social networks. We are talking about the graves of the occupiers, which the tribesmen did not transport to Armenia. And they don't seem to be going to do that. Undoubtedly, the Armenian side was well aware that no "military pantheons" would be preserved in the territories of Azerbaijan after their liberation. This does not mean that all of them will be immediately bulldozed, but such graves, as well as monuments to the invaders, cannot be preserved on our lands. And the Armenian side should have thought about removing the bodies of its "heroes" on its own. Elementary universal logic should have suggested this. But the Armenian logic suggested not to change anything. What for? To have reasons for hysteria and accusations against Baku.

It's simple: if the Armenian side is so concerned about the fate of the "military pantheons," fakes will not help resolve the issue. She can apply to Azerbaijan for permission to collect the bodies. No one will deny the neighbors this. They'll even help you get to the border. Let them arrange "heroic" burials for themselves on the territory of Armenia and worship whomever they want. And there will be no occupation pantheons on the territory of Azerbaijan. And there is no need to rush to arguments that somewhere there are still cemeteries of Wehrmacht soldiers. A lot of things are different in our situation. Firstly, the dead German soldiers were not considered heroes anywhere, even in their homeland. Secondly, the German troops did not destroy the cemeteries themselves. Thirdly, the graves of Soviet soldiers are also preserved in Germany. And fourthly, Nazi Germany was responsible for what it had done, but Nazi Armenia was not.  

And what do we have in our case? So far, no one has called the Armenian army occupation out loud, openly, from an international rostrum, and Armenians calmly exalt everyone who came to Azerbaijani soil with weapons and was eliminated. As history shows, the Germans did not destroy cemeteries. Even the Nazis did not reach the perversions that the Armenian occupiers demonstrated. Non-Judaism has sunk the Armenians to the very bottom. Further, there are no graves of Azerbaijani soldiers in Armenia, because Azerbaijan has never waged war on the territory of this country. In addition, Azerbaijan has always sought the return of the bodies of its soldiers who died during the occupation during the Armenian provocations on the line of contact.

But before the conflict, there were many civilian Azerbaijani cemeteries in Armenia, including very old ones. The enemy might have started talking about the graves of the occupiers in Khankendi or Gadrug if the Azerbaijani cemeteries in Armenia had not been destroyed. The occupiers also destroyed the graves in the Armenian-occupied areas. It is very strange to hear accusations of inhumanity from a party that does not know what humanity is.

And finally, Armenia still remains unpunished. We are talking about international measures against Yerevan for its thirty-year occupation, ethnic cleansing, genocide and large-scale vandalism. She has not been condemned internationally, even verbally, although her actions are subject to a tribunal. This means that Azerbaijan reserves the right to make decisions. 

A few years ago, Armenian blogger Roman Baghdasaryan shocked his fellow tribesmen with the truth about the looting of graves and cultural heritage by Armenians during the occupation years. Baghdasaryan stated in a video distributed by him that 70 percent of the tombstones in 7 districts around the former NKAO are missing. Looters did business on tombstones.

This continued after the war, in the area of responsibility of the Russian peacekeepers. Armenians mocked the still-preserved Azerbaijani graves and posted these images on social media, demonstrating that they could do anything after the war.

In 2008, a Russian blogger visited the then-occupied Aghdam. The video he posted on social media showed, among other things, the ancient Azerbaijani cemetery of Garagachi. These shootings have become a documentary evidence of Armenian vandalism. But if you look at the post-war footage from the same place, you can see that in the years since the Russian blogger's visit, there has been even more destruction. Almost nothing remains of one of the oldest cemeteries in the region.

It should be noted that the Garagachi cemetery is located 5 kilometers south of Aghdam. Its dimensions are large - up to 3 kilometers long and up to 2 kilometers wide. According to archaeological data, the cemetery is three thousand years old. The oldest of the tombstones that have survived to this day, or rather, those that existed before the Armenian occupation, dates back to 1174. During the years of Armenian occupation, the graves and four mausoleums located in the cemetery were destroyed.

The invaders really did terrible things that at first glance were beyond comprehension and logic. It's hard to understand people (if they are people at all) who rummage through graves in search of gold crowns, scatter remains, or steal bones for some reason. Why did the Armenian nationalists so consistently destroy Azerbaijani cemeteries in Armenia and in the previously occupied territories? It turns out that there is an answer to this question. And it is contained in a letter written to the President of Azerbaijan in 2011 by a certain 13-year-old Adelina Avagimyan from Karabakh. More precisely, adult uncles who wanted to move the audience wrote on her behalf. The letter contains the following lines: "I heard from my grandfather that before the war, even 50 or 100 years ago, when there were Azerbaijanis here, if they died, they were taken out of Karabakh and buried in their real homeland, because they knew that this was not their homeland, not their land. That's why there are almost no Azerbaijani cemeteries here."

The question may arise as to why the Azerbaijanis buried their dead outside Karabakh. The answer is very simple. After the resettlement of Armenians to Azerbaijan by tsarist Russia, the newcomers were granted unlimited rights. Conditions were created for the indigenous population that forced them to bury their relatives and friends outside of Karabakh in order to save the newcomers from vandalism, who were prevented by Azerbaijani cemeteries from pursuing expansionist goals. Later, the Armenian side interpreted this in a favorable light.

Everything fell into place today. The true owners have returned to Karabakh, and as the owner, Azerbaijan will decide for itself what is good and right for it.